Technical Glossary (2260 terms)

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

• BIOS — Legacy firmware that boots a PC. [ SOFTWARE ]
• BMS — Battery Management System — controls charging and safety. [ BATTERY ]
• BOE — Chinese display maker producing LCD and OLED panels for phones and laptops. [ BRANDS ]
• BSI — Backside-illuminated sensor — improves low-light sensitivity. [ CAMERA ]
• BT.2020 — The Rec.2020 wide color gamut used with 4K HDR content. [ DISPLAY ]
• Bang & Olufsen — Danish luxury audio brand. [ BRANDS ]
• Basemark — A cross-platform GPU benchmark. [ BENCHMARK ]
• Basemark OS — Benchmark [ BENCHMARK ]
• Battery Health — How much capacity a battery keeps over its lifetime; rated in charge cycles. [ BATTERY ]
• Battery Life — Measured endurance for web, video, and gaming; mAh alone does not tell the full story. [ BATTERY ]
• Battlemage — Intel's second Arc discrete GPU architecture. [ CHIPS ]
• Beats — Apple-owned audio brand known for bass-heavy headphones and earbuds. [ BRANDS ]
• Benchmark — A standardized test that measures and compares device performance in a repeatable way. [ BENCHMARK ]
• Blackwell — NVIDIA's GPU architecture used in RTX 50 series (2025). [ CHIPS ]
• Blender — An open-source 3D renderer used to benchmark CPU and GPU rendering performance. [ BENCHMARK ]
• Blender Foundation — Nonprofit behind the Blender 3D software and its benchmarks. [ BRANDS ]
• Blizzard — Apple's efficiency CPU core in the A15 and M2 chips. [ CHIPS ]
• Bluetooth — Short-range wireless for earbuds, watches, and accessories; 5.3/6.0 improves power and range. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• Bluetooth 5.0 — A Bluetooth generation with longer range. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• Bluetooth 5.1 — A Bluetooth generation with direction finding. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• Bluetooth 5.2 — A Bluetooth generation with LE Audio support. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• Bluetooth SIG — The standards body that defines Bluetooth and LE Audio. [ BRANDS ]
• Bluetooth chip — Chips [ CHIPS ]
• Bluetooth tethering — Sharing internet over Bluetooth. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• Bokeh — The pleasing blur behind a subject in portraits, produced by wide apertures or software. [ CAMERA ]
• Bose — Audio brand known for noise-cancelling headphones and speakers. [ BRANDS ]
• Brightness — Screen luminance measured in nits; higher means better daylight visibility and HDR impact. [ DISPLAY ]
• Broadcom — Chip designer for networking, wireless, and semiconductors. [ BRANDS ]
• Burn-In — Permanent ghosting caused by static content on OLED panels; most noticeable on bright, fixed elements. [ DISPLAY ]
• Bypass Charging — A feature that powers the phone directly from the charger during gaming, sparing the battery. [ BATTERY ]
• C-band — The 3.7-4.2 GHz spectrum used for mid-band 5G. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• C-rate — A charge/discharge rate relative to battery capacity. [ BATTERY ]
• CAMM — Compression Attached Memory Module — a thin laptop memory format. [ MEMORY ]
• CAS latency — The delay (in clock cycles) before memory responds to a request. [ MEMORY ]
• CCD — An older image-sensor technology mostly used in specialty cameras. [ CAMERA ]
• CCT flash — Camera [ CAMERA ]
• CDMA — Code Division Multiple Access — a legacy 2G/3G standard. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• CDNA — AMD's data-center GPU architecture. [ CHIPS ]
• CFexpress — A fast memory card standard for cameras. [ STORAGE ]
• CMOS — The image-sensor technology used in nearly all phone cameras. [ CAMERA ]
• CMOS chip — Chips [ CHIPS ]
• CPU — The main processor that executes apps and system tasks; more cores/clock = faster general performance. [ PERFORMANCE ]
• CPU Cores — Independent processing units in a CPU; more cores handle more tasks at once. [ PERFORMANCE ]
• CPU Socket — The physical slot a CPU plugs into; the socket determines which motherboards a CPU supports. [ PERFORMANCE ]
• CPU benchmark — Benchmark [ BENCHMARK ]
• CPU-Z — A utility that identifies CPU, memory, and motherboard details. [ BENCHMARK ]
• Cache — Small, ultra-fast memory on the CPU that stores frequently used data to avoid slow RAM access. [ PERFORMANCE ]
• Cadence — US EDA software company for chip design. [ BRANDS ]
• Camera Zoom — How much a camera magnifies a scene; optical zoom keeps detail, digital zoom crops it. [ CAMERA ]
• CarPlay — Apple's in-car interface. [ SOFTWARE ]