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DSL
DSL - Digital Subscriber Line: high-speed internet connection offered by telephone companies over existing phone lines. Speeds of up to about 1.5Mb are possible.
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Duron
the official name of AMD's low cost Athlon variant processor. Previous to announcement was known by the code name of Spitfire.
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DVD
Digital Versatile Disc. Introduced in 1996, the optical discs share the same overall dimensions of a CD, but have significantly higher capacities - holding from 4 to 28 times as much data.
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DVD Video
Popular format for high quality MPEG2 video and digital surround sound. Enables multilanguage, multisubtitling and other advanced user features.
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DVD+RW
DVD ReWritable. It is the only rewritable format that provides full, non-cartridge, compatibility with existing DVD-Video players and DVD-ROM drives for both real-time video recording and random data recording across PC and entertainment applications.
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DVD-Audio
This audio-only storage format similar to CD-Audio, however offers 16, 20 and 24-bit samples at a variety of sampling rates from 44.1 to 192KHz, compared to 16 bits and 44.1KHz for CDs. DVD-Audio discs can also contain music videos, graphics and other information.
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DVD-R
DVD Recordable. The authoring use drive (635nm laser) was introduced in 1998 by Pioneer, and the general use format (650nm laser) was authorized in 2000. DVD-R offers a write-once, read-many storage format akin to CD-R and is used to master DVD-Video and DVD-ROM discs.
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DVD-RAM
DVD Random Access Memory. A rewritable DVD disc endorsed by Panasonic, Hitachi and Toshiba. It is a cartridge-based, and more recently, bare disc technology for data recording and playback. DVD-RAM bare discs are fragile and do not guarantee data integrity. The first DVD-RAM drives had a capacity of 2.6GB (single sided) or 5.2GB (double sided). DVD-RAM Version 2 discs have double-sided 9.4GB discs. DVD-RAM drives typically read DVD-Video, DVD-ROM and CD media. The current installed base of DVD-ROM drives and DVD-Video players cannot read DVD-RAM media.
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DVD-ROM
Read Only Memory. This read-only DVD disc is used for storing data and interactive sequences as well as audio and video. DVD-ROMs run in DVD-ROM or DVD-RAM drives, not DVD-Video players connected to TVs and home theaters. However, most DVD-ROM drives will play DVD-Video movies.
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DVD-RW
DVD ReWritable. A rewritable DVD format that is similar to DVD+RW, but its capability to work as a random access device is not as good as +RW. It has a read-write capacity of 4.7 GB.
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EasyNow!
AMD's low cost computer platform design. Contains no legacy components.
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ECC
Error Correcting Code. A method of generating redundant information which can be used to detect and correct errors in stored or transmitted data.
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EDO
Extended Data Output, a type of random access memory (RAM) chip designed to improve the time to read from memory on faster microprocessors such as the Intel Pentium.
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EEPROM
Electronically Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory like ROM cannot be erased unless it recieves proper erasing signals from the mother deivce. Commonly used for BIOS's of motherboards.
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EMI
EMI - Electromagnetic Interference: a form of electronic radiation which can potentially corrupt data transfer.
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ESD Strap
A device that plugs into a standard outlet which discharges static electricity from a person. Always used when handling hardware.
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Ethernet
The most widely-installed local area network technology. An Ethernet LAN typically uses coaxial cable or special grades of twisted pair wires. The most commonly installed Ethernet systems are called 10BASE-T and provide transmission speeds up to 10 Mbps.
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FAB
Stand for Fabrication facility, a place where computer components such as CPU/RAM/GPU are produced.
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Fab 17
Fab 17 or the Submicron Development Center is loca
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Fab 25
the first Fab AMD owned is located in Austin, Texas. It has a capacity of 5000 wafer starts a week.
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Fab 30
AMD's second fab is located in Dresden, Germany. It has a capacity of 5000 wafer starts a week, but will not reach that mark until the end of 2001.
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Fab 35
AMD is rumored to be planning a new Fab, which will be deemed Fab 35. It will most likely produce 300mm wafers, and could be located in Austin or Dresden.
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Fabless
Refering to chip producers that don't have their own fabrication plant, rather outsources production to 3rd party manufacturers.
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Fan Header
A place where you can plug a Fan with RPM monitoring straight into the board. [image]
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FAQ
Freaquently Ask Questions. A place where common questions are answered already thus saving users time so they don't have to ask the same thing.
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FASL
Fujitsu AMD Semiconductor Limited is a joint venture between the two companies. FASL I and FASL II are fabs the companies share that AMD uses for flash memory production.
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Fast Ethernet
A local area network transmission standard that provides a data rate of 100 megabits per second.
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FAT32
File Allocation Table maintained by an operating system on a hard disk that provides a map of the clusters that a file has been stored in. FAT 32 supports 32-bit processors.
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FC-PGA
CPU's with the die on the top instead of the bottom uses the Flip Chip Pin Grid Array. This is done to improve thermal heat transfer to the heatsink. [image]
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FC-PGA2
Because FC-PGA CPU's often got damanged when the heatsink is installed, Intel came up with the idea of putting a heatspreader on top of the CPU to protect it from damage. [image]
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