| A/D | Analog / Digital | |
| ACPI | Advanced Configuration and
Power Interface | |
| ADSL | Asymetrical Digital Subscriber
Line | |
| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port | |
| ALU | Arithmetic Logical Unit | logische Rechnereinheit |
| AMR | Audio Modem Riser | Steckkarte
für Modem und Audio |
| AMR | Anisotrope Magnetoresistenz | |
| APIC | Advanced PIC | |
| APM | Advanced Power Management | |
| ATA | AT Attachment | |
| ATAPI | ATA Packet Interface | |
| ASIC | Aplication Specific Integrated
Circuit | |
| CAS | Column Address Strobe | |
| CCD | Charge Coupled Device | Ladungsgekoppelter Schaltkreis |
| CD-R | CD-Recordable | einmal
beschreibbare CD |
| CD-RW | CD-ReWritable | mehrfach löschbare und wiederbeschreibbare CD |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface | |
| CGI | Computer Graphics Interface | |
| CISC | Complex Instruction Set
Computing | |
| CISC | Customer Specific Integrated
Circuit | |
| CL2 | CAS Latency 2 | |
| CMYK | Cyan, Magenta, Yellow,
Black | Cyan, Magenta, Gelb,
Schwarz |
| CPLD | Complex Programmable Logic
Device | |
| CPPM | Content Protection for Precorded
Media | (DVD-Audio- Kopierschutz) |
| CPRM | Content Protection for Recordable
Media Proposal | (Festplatten kopierschutz) |
| CPU | Central Prozessing Unit | Zentrale Rechner Einheit |
| CTR | Current Transfer Ratio | |
| D/A | Digital / Analog | |
| DDC | Display Data Channel | |
| DDR | Double Data Rate | |
| DIMM | Dual Inline Memory Modules | |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access | Direkter
Speicherzugriff |
| DMD | Digital Mirror Device | |
| DMI | Desktop Management Interface | |
| DPMS | Display Power Management
Signalling | |
| DRAM | Dynamic Random Access Memory | dynamischer
wahlfreier
Speicherzugriff |
| DSP | | Digitaler Signalprozessor |
| DTCP | Digital Transmission Content
Protection | |
| DTL | Diode Transistor Logic | |
| DTLZ | Diode Transistor Logic
mit Z-Diode | |
| DVD | Digital Versatile Disc | |
| DVD-5 | | 4,7 GByte, einseitig |
| DVD-9 | | 8,6 GByte, einseitig, zwei
Schichten |
| DVD-10 | | 9,4 GByte, doppelseitig
zum Umdrehen |
| DVD-18 | | 17 GByte, doppelseitig, zwei
Schichten |
| DVD-R | DVD-Rewritable | Einmal beschreibbare
DVD |
| DVD-RAM | | Wiederbeschreibbares
optisches Speichermedium |
| DVD-ROM | | Nur lesbare DVD |
| DVD+RW | DVD Rewritable | |
| DVD-RW | DVD-Rewritable | (Nachfolger
DVD-R) |
| EAROM | Electrically Alterable ROM | elektrisch
veränderbar |
| ECC | Error Correction Code | |
| ECL | Emitter Coupled Logic | |
| ECP | Extended Capability Port | |
| EEPROM | Electrically Erasable Programmable
ROM | |
| EIDE | Enhanced IDE | |
| EPP | Enhanced Parallel Port | |
| ESCD | Extended System Configuration
Data | |
| FC-PGA | Flip-Chip Pin
Grid Array | (Chipbauform) |
| FET | Field Effect Transistor | |
| FPGA | Field Programmable Gateway | |
| FPU | Floating Point Unit | |
| FSB | Frontside Bustakt | |
| GMR | Giant Magnetoresistance | |
| GPCS | General Purpose Chip Select | |
| HDCP | High Definiton Content
Protection | |
| HDL | Hardware Description Language | |
| HLL | High Level Logic | |
| HNIL | High Noise Immunity
Logic | |
| HTL | High Treshold Logic | |
| IC | Integrated Circuit | Integrierte
Schaltung |
| IDE | Integrated Drive Electronics | |
| IrDA | | (Infrarotschnittstelle) |
| IRQ | Interrupt Request | Unterbrechungsanforderung |
| ISA | Industry Standard Architecture | |
| I²L | Integrated Injection Logic | |
| LWL | | Lichtwellenleiter |
| MAC | Media Access Control | |
| MCM | Multichip Module | |
| MCU | Micro Controller Unit | |
| MMC | Multi Media Card | |
| MMX | | Multimediaerweiterung |
| MPLS | Multiprotocol Label
Switching | |
| MPP | Massive Parallel Prozessing | |
| MPU | Microprocessor Unit | |
| MRAM | Magnetoresisive RAM | |
| MTH | Memory Translation Hub | |
| MTJ | Magnetic Tunnel Junction | |
| NDRO | Non Destructive Read
Out | zerstörungsfreies Lesen |
| NOVRAM | Non Volitale RAM | nicht
flüchtiger RAM |
| NUMA | Non Uniform Memory Access | |
| NV-RAM | Non Volitale RAM | nicht
flüchtiger RAM |
| OMAP | Open Multi-Media Application
Platform | |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect | |
| PCL | Printer Control Language | Druckerkontrollsprache |
| PICA | Personal Internet Client
Architecture | |
| PLD | Programmable Logic Device | |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | |
| PPD | PostScript Printer Description | |
| RAM | Random Access Memory | wahlfreier
Speicherzugriff |
| RAMDAC | Random Access Memory
Digital Analog Converter | |
| RAS | Row Adress Strobe | |
| REPROM | Reprogrammable Read Only
Memory | |
| RET | Resolution Enhancement Techology | |
| RGB | | Rot Grün Blau |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set
Computing | |
| RL | | Rekonfigurierbare Logik |
| ROM | Read Only Memory | nur
lese Speicher |
| RTL | Resistior Transistor Logic | |
| P2P | Peer to Peer | |
| PC | Personal Computer | |
| PC | Programm Counter | |
| PIC | Programmable Interrupt Controllers | |
| PLD | Programmable Logic Device | programmierbareSchaltungslogik |
| PLL | Phase Locked Loop | |
| PnP | Plug and Play | |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call | |
| SCA | Single Connector Attachment | |
| SCSI | Small Computer System
Interface | |
| SDR | Single Data Rate | |
| SDRAM | Synchronous Dynamic RAM | |
| SECC | Single Edge Contact
Connector | |
| SEPP | Single Edge Processor
Package | |
| SIMD | Single Instruction Multiple
Data | |
| SIM | Subscriber Identity Module | |
| SIMM | Single Inline Memory
Module | |
| SMD | Surface Mounted Devices | oberflächenmontierte
Bauteile |
| SMP | Symmetric Multi Processing | |
| SMT | Simultaneous Multithreading | |
| SPD-EEPROM | Serial Presence Detect-EEPROM | |
| SPS | Speicher programmierbare Steuerung | |
| SRAM | Static RAM | Statisches
RAM |
| TCO | Total Cost of Ownership | |
| TLP | Thread Level Parallelism | |
| TMR | | Tunnel Magnetoresistenz |
| TTL | Transistor Transistor Logic | |
| UMA | Uniform Memory Access | |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus | |
| VESA | Video Electronics Standard
Association | |
| VGA | Video Graphik Adapter | |
| ZIP | Zone Improvement Plan | |