Technical Glossary (2260 terms)

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

• TUF Dash — Product Lines [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• TUF Gaming — Asus's durable, value gaming line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• TWS — True Wireless Stereo earbuds. [ AUDIO ]
• TalkBack — Software [ SOFTWARE ]
• Tandem OLED — A stacked, dual-layer OLED design that boosts brightness and longevity. [ DISPLAY ]
• Tecno Camon — Tecno's camera-focused line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Tecno Phantom — Tecno's premium line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Tecno Spark — Tecno's budget line. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Telephoto Lens — A long-focal-length lens for close-up zoom shots without digital cropping. [ CAMERA ]
• Tempered Glass — Chemically hardened glass used as screen protection on phones and tablets. [ DURABILITY ]
• Tempest — Apple's efficiency CPU core in the A12 chip. [ CHIPS ]
• Tensor Core — NVIDIA's specialized AI matrix-multiplication hardware. [ CHIPS ]
• Tensor G2 — Google's second-generation SoC (launched in 2022). [ CHIPS ]
• Tensor G3 — Google's SoC used in the Pixel 8 series (launched in 2023). [ CHIPS ]
• Tensor G4 — Google's SoC used in the Pixel 9 series (launched in 2024). [ CHIPS ]
• Tensor G5 — Google's first fully custom SoC (launched in 2025). [ CHIPS ]
• Tensor SoC — Chips [ CHIPS ]
• Terabyte — One thousand gigabytes. [ GENERAL ]
• Tetra2 — Samsung's 16-to-1 pixel-binning technology. [ CAMERA ]
• Texas Instruments — US chipmaker known for analog chips, DSPs, and calculators. [ BRANDS ]
• Thermal Throttling — Chips slowing down when hot to stay within thermal limits; higher stability % means less slowdown. [ PERFORMANCE ]
• ThinkBook — Product Lines [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• ThinkPad — Lenovo's business laptop line known for durability and keyboards. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• ThinkPad T14 — Product Lines [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• ThinkPad X1 Carbon — Lenovo's premium thin business ultrabook. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 — Lenovo's premium thin business laptop — launched in 2023. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12 — Lenovo's updated premium ultrabook — launched in 2024. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• ThinkPad X1 Nano — Product Lines [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Threadripper — AMD's high-core-count enthusiast workstation processors. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Threads — How many tasks a CPU can run in parallel; with SMT, each core handles two threads. [ PERFORMANCE ]
• Thunder — Apple's efficiency CPU core in the A13 chip. [ CHIPS ]
• Thunderbolt — A very fast USB-C port standard (40 Gbps) for docks, external GPUs, displays, and storage. [ PORTS ]
• Thunderbolt 5 — The 80-120 Gbps Thunderbolt generation (2024). [ PORTS ]
• Thunderbolt port — Ports [ PORTS ]
• Tiger Lake — Intel's 11th Gen mobile microarchitecture (2020). [ CHIPS ]
• Titan — NVIDIA's former top-tier desktop GPU brand. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• Titan M2 — Chips [ CHIPS ]
• ToF — Time-of-Flight depth sensor. [ CAMERA ]
• ToF Sensor — A depth sensor that measures distance to subjects, improving AR and portrait effects. [ CAMERA ]
• Touchscreen — A display that accepts direct finger input; modern panels support multi-touch gestures. [ DISPLAY ]
• Transistor Count — The number of transistors on a chip (in billions); more, on a smaller node, means more performance. [ PERFORMANCE ]
• True Black 400 — Display [ DISPLAY ]
• True Black 500 — Display [ DISPLAY ]
• True Tone — Apple's ambient-light color adaptation that makes whites look natural under different lighting. [ DISPLAY ]
• Turin — AMD codename for the EPYC 9005 server series. [ CHIPS ]
• Turing — NVIDIA's GPU architecture that introduced hardware ray tracing (RTX 20). [ CHIPS ]
• U3 speed — A video speed class for 4K recording on SD cards. [ STORAGE ]
• UDIMM — Unbuffered DIMM — standard desktop memory. [ MEMORY ]
• UEFI — The modern firmware that boots a PC. [ SOFTWARE ]
• UFS — Universal Flash Storage, the dominant phone storage standard; UFS 4.0 doubles UFS 3.1 speed. [ STORAGE ]