Technical Glossary (1935 terms)

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

• GlobalFoundries — US-based chip foundry fabricating processors for automotive, networking, and consumer products. [ BRANDS ]
• Google — Technology company behind Android, Pixel phones, and the Google Tensor chips used in them. [ BRANDS ]
• Google AI — Google's AI organization behind on-device machine learning in Pixel phones. [ BRANDS ]
• Google Play — Google's app store and content service for Android. [ BRANDS ]
• Google Tensor — Google's in-house Arm SoC used in Pixel phones, with custom NPU and TPU blocks. [ BRANDS ]
• Google account — A Google account used for its services and Play Store. [ SOFTWARE ]
• Gorilla Armor — Corning's anti-glare cover glass used on some flagships. [ DISPLAY ]
• Gorilla Glass — Corning's chemically strengthened glass used on many phones and tablets for scratch resistance. [ DISPLAY ]
• Gorilla Glass 5 — Corning's 2016 cover glass, rated to survive drops from about 1.6 metres. [ DISPLAY ]
• Gorilla Glass 6 — Corning's 2018 cover glass, rated for multiple drops from about one metre. [ DISPLAY ]
• Gorilla Glass Victus 3 — A recent Corning premium cover-glass tier balancing drop and scratch resistance. [ DISPLAY ]
• Gorilla Glass Victus Pro — A high-end Corning cover glass tuned for toughness and scratch resistance. [ DISPLAY ]
• Granite Rapids — Intel's 6th-gen Xeon Scalable microarchitecture (2024). [ CHIPS ]
• Granite Ridge — Granite Ridge is AMD's desktop codename for its Zen 5 Ryzen CPUs. [ CHIPS ]
• Graphics API — The software interface games/apps use to talk to the GPU (DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, OpenCL). [ GAMING ]
• H.265 encode — H.265 encode is hardware encoding of video in the efficient HEVC codec. [ CHIPS ]
• HBM — High Brightness Mode — a temporary peak-brightness boost in sunlight. [ DISPLAY ]
• HBM2 — The second generation of High Bandwidth Memory, stacked on-package for GPUs. [ MEMORY ]
• HBM3 — The third generation of High Bandwidth Memory, faster and denser for AI and GPUs. [ MEMORY ]
• HBM4 — The upcoming fourth generation of High Bandwidth Memory. [ MEMORY ]
• HD voice — Higher-quality voice calls using wideband audio codecs. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• HDD — Hard Disk Drive — a mechanical storage drive with spinning platters. [ STORAGE ]
• HDMI — The standard video/audio output port for TVs and monitors; HDMI 2.1 supports high-res high-refresh. [ PORTS ]
• HDR — High Dynamic Range expands brightness and color for more lifelike photos and video. [ DISPLAY ]
• HDR Vivid — China's HDR standard for broadcast and streaming content. [ DISPLAY ]
• HDR certified — A label indicating a display meets a defined HDR standard such as VESA DisplayHDR or Dolby Vision. [ DISPLAY ]
• HDR gaming — Games that output wide dynamic range for HDR displays. [ GAMING ]
• HDR peak brightness — The maximum brightness a display can reach on small highlights in HDR content, measured in nits. [ DISPLAY ]
• HDR photo — A photo merged from multiple exposures for more range. [ CAMERA ]
• HDR playback — HDR playback is a chip's ability to render HDR video correctly. [ CHIPS ]
• HDR video — Video recorded with a wider dynamic range for HDR displays. [ CAMERA ]
• HDR10 — The baseline HDR format with fixed metadata; HDR10+ adds dynamic per-scene metadata. [ DISPLAY ]
• HEIC — The efficient image format Apple uses by default on iPhone. [ CAMERA ]
• HMB — Host Memory Buffer — an SSD using a slice of system RAM as cache. [ STORAGE ]
• HMD Global — HMD Global is the company licensed to make Nokia-branded phones. [ BRANDS ]
• HP — US PC maker known for Spectre, Envy, Pavilion, EliteBook, and Omen computers. [ BRANDS ]
• HP Spectre x360 14 — HP's premium convertible laptop — launched in 2024. [ PRODUCT LINES ]
• HSPA — High-Speed Packet Access, a 3G data enhancement for faster mobile data. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• HSPA+ — Evolved HSPA, sometimes called 3.5G, with faster 3G data. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• Harman Kardon — Audio brand known for premium speakers and laptop audio tuning. [ BRANDS ]
• HarmonyOS — Huawei's operating system used in place of Android on its devices. [ SOFTWARE ]
• Hasselblad — A camera brand that partners with some phone makers on tuning. [ CAMERA ]
• Hawk Point — AMD codename for the Ryzen 8040 mobile APU generation. [ CHIPS ]
• Headphone Jack — The 3.5mm analog audio output; increasingly omitted on flagship phones. [ PORTS ]
• Helio — Helio is MediaTek's line of budget and midrange mobile SoCs. [ BRANDS ]
• Hertz — A hertz is one cycle per second, a unit of frequency. [ GENERAL ]
• Hi-Res Audio — Audio with higher resolution than CD, such as 24-bit/96 kHz. [ AUDIO ]
• HiSilicon — Huawei's chip design division behind the Kirin SoCs. [ BRANDS ]
• Honor — Chinese phone brand (formerly Huawei) known for Magic and X-series devices. [ BRANDS ]
• Honor 300 — Honor's midrange phone with good cameras launched in 2025. [ PRODUCT LINES ]