Nippleteeth

Joined 17 January 2011

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Upgrading and Repairing PCs

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Basic computer components

Pointing devices	Graphics tablet Game controller Light pen Mouse Optical Optical trackpad Pointing stick Touchpad Touchscreen Trackball
Other	Keyboard Image scanner Graphics card GPU Microphone Refreshable braille display Sound card Sound chip Webcam Softcam

Removable
data storage

Central processing unit
- Microprocessor
Motherboard
Memory
- RAM
- BIOS
Data storage
- HDD
- SSD (SATA / NVMe)
- SSHD
Power supply
- SMPS
MOSFET
- Power MOSFET
- VRM
Network interface controller
Fax modem
Expansion card

Current	Ethernet USB Thunderbolt Analog audio jack DisplayPort HDMI
Obsolete	FireWire (IEEE 1394) Parallel port Serial port Game port PS/2 port eSATA DVI VGA

Related

Processor technologies

Instruction set
architectures

Types	Orthogonal instruction set CISC RISC Application-specific EDGE TRIPS VLIW EPIC MISC OISC NISC ZISC VISC architecture Quantum computing Comparison Addressing modes
Instruction sets	Motorola 68000 series VAX PDP-11 x86 ARM Stanford MIPS MIPS MIPS-X Power POWER PowerPC Power ISA Clipper architecture SPARC SuperH DEC Alpha ETRAX CRIS M32R Unicore Itanium OpenRISC RISC-V MicroBlaze LMC System/3x0 S/360 S/370 S/390 z/Architecture Tilera ISA VISC architecture Epiphany architecture Others

Instruction pipelining	Pipeline stall Operand forwarding Classic RISC pipeline
Hazards	Data dependency Structural Control False sharing
Out-of-order	Scoreboarding Tomasulo's algorithm Reservation station Re-order buffer Register renaming Wide-issue
Speculative	Branch prediction Memory dependence prediction

Level	Bit Bit-serial Word Instruction Pipelining Scalar Superscalar Task Thread Process Data Vector Memory Distributed
Multithreading	Temporal Simultaneous Hyperthreading Simultaneous and heterogenous Speculative Preemptive Cooperative
Flynn's taxonomy	SISD SIMD Array processing (SIMT) Pipelined processing Associative processing SWAR MISD MIMD SPMD

Processor
performance

Transistor count
Instructions per cycle (IPC)
- Cycles per instruction (CPI)
Instructions per second (IPS)
Floating-point operations per second (FLOPS)
Transactions per second (TPS)
Synaptic updates per second (SUPS)
Performance per watt (PPW)
Cache performance metrics
Computer performance by orders of magnitude

By application	Embedded system Microprocessor Microcontroller Mobile Ultra-low-voltage ASIP Soft microprocessor
Systems on chip	System on a chip (SoC) Multiprocessor (MPSoC) Cypress PSoC Network on a chip (NoC)
Hardware accelerators	Coprocessor AI accelerator Graphics processing unit (GPU) Image processor Vision processing unit (VPU) Physics processing unit (PPU) Digital signal processor (DSP) Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) Secure cryptoprocessor Network processor Baseband processor

Core count

Components

Functional units	Arithmetic logic unit (ALU) Address generation unit (AGU) Floating-point unit (FPU) Memory management unit (MMU) Load–store unit Translation lookaside buffer (TLB) Branch predictor Branch target predictor Integrated memory controller (IMC) Memory management unit Instruction decoder
Logic	Combinational Sequential Glue Logic gate Quantum Array
Registers	Processor register Status register Stack register Register file Memory buffer Memory address register Program counter
Control unit	Hardwired control unit Instruction unit Data buffer Write buffer Microcode ROM Counter
Datapath	Multiplexer Demultiplexer Adder Multiplier CPU Binary decoder Address decoder Sum-addressed decoder Barrel shifter
Circuitry	Integrated circuit 3D Mixed-signal Power management Boolean Digital Analog Quantum Switch

Power
management

Related

v t e Instruction set extensions
SIMD (RISC)	Alpha MVI ARM NEON SVE MIPS MDMX MIPS-3D MXU MIPS SIMD PA-RISC MAX Power ISA VMX SPARC VIS
SIMD (x86)	MMX (1996) 3DNow! (1998) SSE (1999) SSE2 (2001) SSE3 (2004) SSSE3 (2006) SSE4 (2006) SSE5 ~~(2007)~~ AVX (2008) F16C (2009) XOP (2009) FMA (FMA4: 2011, FMA3: 2012) AVX2 (2013) AVX-512 (2015) AMX (2022) AVX10 (2023)
Bit manipulation	BMI (ABM: 2007, BMI1: 2012, BMI2: 2013, TBM: 2012) ADX (2014)
Compressed instructions	Thumb MIPS16e ASE RVC
Security and cryptography	PadLock (2003) AES-NI (2008); ARMv8 also has AES instructions CLMUL (2010) RDRAND (2012) SHA (2013) MPX (2015) SGX (2015) TDX (2021)
Transactional memory	TSX (2013) ASF
Virtualization	VT-x (2005) AMD-V (2006) VT-d (AMD-Vi)
Suspended extensions' dates are ~~struck through~~.

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