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Computer hardware
Graphics cards, communications, motherboards, etc.
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light-emitting diode
Computer; Computer hardware
A semiconductor device that converts electrical energy into light, used, for example, for the activity lights on computer disk drives. Light-emitting diodes work on the principle of ...
color monitor
Computer; Computer hardware
A monitor designed to work with a video card or adapter to produce text or graphics images in color.
graphics accelerator
Computer; Computer hardware
A video card that contains a graphics coprocessor. A graphics accelerator can update the video display much more quickly than the CPU can, and it frees the CPU for other tasks. A graphics accelerator ...
video card
Computer; Computer hardware
The electronic components that generate the video signal sent through a cable to a video display. The video adapter is usually located on the computer's main system board or on an expansion board, ...
video accelerator
Computer; Computer hardware
A video card that contains a graphics coprocessor. A graphics accelerator can update the video display much more quickly than the CPU can, and it frees the CPU for other tasks. A graphics accelerator ...
microprocessor
Computer; Computer hardware
The computational and control unit of a computer. The CPU is the device that interprets and executes instructions. Mainframes and early minicomputers contained circuit boards full of integrated ...
