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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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FDD
Stands for Floppy Disk Drive. Traditionally refers to the A:\ drive or 1.44 MB (3.5") High Density Floppy format, but can also refer to older 720K (5.25") Floppy drives.
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Fester
code name of the original 6 layer PCB AMD Athlon reference board. This is the board that shipped with the first review Athlon systems.
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Fibre Channel
A technology for transmitting data between computer devices at a data rate of up to 1 Gbps, especially suited for connecting computer servers to shared storage devices and for interconnecting storage controllers and drives. Devices can be as far as ten kilometers apart. The longer distance requires optical fiber as the physical medium. Fibre Channel also works using coaxial cable and ordinary telephone twisted pair.
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Firewall
Firewalls are used to create a protective barrier for the internal network (LAN) against the external one (WAN, Internet) which monitors packets traveling in and out of the network. Usually located at the network's gateway.
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Flatscreen
Type of computer display which uses an LCD panel instead of a CRT to project images. Typically the flatscreen or flatpanel display is less than two inches thick. [image]
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Foot Print
The amount of physical space a component will take up.
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FSAA
Full Screen Anti Aliasing, what is done by videocard to remove the jagged edges in lines. The resulting image is much smoother on the eyes, however FSAA has usually a 50% performance reduction when enabled.
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FSB
Stands for Front Side Bus, which denotes the speed at which your processor interacts with the components on the motherboard. Typically the FSB is 100Mhz or 133Mhz, but overclockers often manipulate this value to increase the speed at which their processor runs. i.e. 100Mhz FSB X 5.0 clockmultiplier = 500Mhz processor
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Full Duplex
Data transfer that allows a switch to send and receive data to a node at the same time. Also known as bidirectional communication.
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