Technical Glossary (2260 terms)

Standardized hardware and benchmark definitions across smartphones, laptops, CPUs, GPUs, SoCs, and tablets.

• Sony IMX858 — A 50MP sensor used for ultrawide and telephoto cameras. [ CAMERA ]
• Sony IMX890 — A 50MP camera sensor used in many midrange-to-flagship phones. [ CAMERA ]
• Sony IMX900 — A 50MP main sensor used in midrange phones. [ CAMERA ]
• Sony IMX904 — A 48MP main camera sensor used in recent iPhones. [ CAMERA ]
• Sony IMX906 — A 50MP sensor used in midrange phones. [ CAMERA ]
• Sony IMX914 — A 12MP sensor used for iPhone front cameras. [ CAMERA ]
• Sony IMX972 — A 48MP ultrawide sensor used in recent iPhones. [ CAMERA ]
• Sony IMX989 — A large 1-inch 50MP camera sensor used in premium camera phones. [ CAMERA ]
• Sony Semiconductor — Sony's division that designs IMX camera sensors used by most flagship phones. [ BRANDS ]
• Spectre — HP's premium consumer laptop line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Speedometer — Benchmark [ BENCHMARK ]
• Spreadtrum — Chinese chipmaker now part of Unisoc, targeting entry-level devices. [ BRANDS ]
• Steam — Valve's PC game store and platform. [ GAMING ]
• Stereo Speakers — Two speakers (left + right) for separated, fuller sound; common on modern phones. [ AUDIO ]
• Storage Size — How much built-in storage a device has (GB/TB); determines how many apps, photos, and games fit. [ STORAGE ]
• Strix Point — AMD codename for the Ryzen AI 300 mobile APU generation. [ CHIPS ]
• Studio Display — Product Lines [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Sub-6 GHz — The main 5G band below 6 GHz; slower than mmWave but with far better range and coverage. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• SunSpider — Benchmark [ BENCHMARK ]
• Super AMOLED Plus — Display [ DISPLAY ]
• Super Retina — Apple's brand name for its OLED displays. [ DISPLAY ]
• Super Retina XDR — Apple's high-brightness OLED display used in Pro iPhones. [ DISPLAY ]
• SuperPi — A legacy single-threaded Pi-computation benchmark. [ BENCHMARK ]
• Surface — Product Lines [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Surface Go — Microsoft's compact budget tablet. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Surface Laptop — Microsoft's premium Windows laptop. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Surface Laptop 7 — Microsoft's ARM laptop with the Snapdragon X Elite — launched in 2024. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Surface Pro — Microsoft's detachable Windows tablet-laptop. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Surface Pro 11 — Microsoft's ARM-based tablet with the Snapdragon X Elite — launched in 2024. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Swift — Acer's thin ultrabook line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Swift 14 — Product Lines [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Swift Go — Product Lines [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Synopsys — US company providing EDA tools used to design chips. [ BRANDS ]
• SysMark — A real-world application benchmark for PCs. [ BENCHMARK ]
• T2 chip — Chips [ CHIPS ]
• T4 security chip — Chips [ CHIPS ]
• TAA — Temporal Anti-Aliasing — a temporal smoothing method. [ GAMING ]
• TBW — Terabytes Written — the rated endurance of an SSD. [ STORAGE ]
• TCL 50 Series — TCL's budget phone generation. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• TCL CSOT — TCL's display subsidiary making LCD and OLED panels. [ BRANDS ]
• TDP — Sustained power/heat a chip is designed for; higher allows higher performance with more cooling. [ PERFORMANCE ]
• TFT — Thin-Film Transistor — the active-matrix technology behind most LCD panels. [ DISPLAY ]
• TGP — The power budget a laptop GPU can draw; higher TGP usually means more sustained gaming performance. [ PERFORMANCE ]
• TLC — Triple-Level Cell NAND — three bits per cell, common in SSDs. [ STORAGE ]
• TMUs — GPU units that apply textures to 3D surfaces; more TMUs improve textured rendering. [ GAMING ]
• TN — Twisted Nematic — a fast, cheap LCD panel type with poor viewing angles. [ DISPLAY ]
• TOPS — Trillions of Operations Per Second — a measure of AI/Neural engine performance. [ CHIPS ]
• TOPS score — A measure of AI operations per second in TOPS. [ BENCHMARK ]
• TRIM — A command that tells an SSD which blocks are unused so it can erase them. [ STORAGE ]
• TSMC — The world's leading chip foundry, fabricating Apple, Qualcomm, and AMD chips. [ PERFORMANCE ]