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Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)   is an open industry specification co-developed by Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix, and Toshiba.  
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back-side bus (BSB)   is a computer bus used to connect the CPU to CPU cache memory  
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case fan   any fan inside, or attached to, a computer case used for active cooling  
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Centrino   brand represents Intel Wi-Fi and WiMAX adapters  
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chassis air guide (CAG)   is Intel's thermal system to PC chassis  
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Cool’n’Quiet   a CPU speed throttling and power saving technology introduced by AMD with its Athlon 64 processor line.  
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Cooler   most commonly is an insulated box used to keep food or drink cool.  
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DRAM   a type of random-access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit.  
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dual-core processing   has two cores (e.g. AMD Phenom II X2, Intel Core Duo)  
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Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)   a trademark for a series of dynamic frequency scaling technologies built into some Intel microprocessors that allow the clock speed of the processor to be dynamically changed (to different P-states) by software  
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Execute disable bit   is an Intel hardware-based security feature that can help reduce system exposure to viruses and malicious code.  
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front-side bus (FSB)   is a computer communication interface (bus) often used in Intel-chip-based computers during the 1990s and 2000s.  
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heat sink   s a passive heat exchanger component that cools a device by dissipating heat into the surrounding air. In computers, heat sinks are used to cool central processing units or graphics processors.  
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hyper-threading   is Intel's proprietary simultaneous multithreading (SMT) implementation used to improve parallelization of computations (doing multiple tasks at once) performed on PC microprocessors.  
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hyper transport   is a technology for interconnection of computer processors.  
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internal bus   connects all the internal components of a computer  
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Level 1 (L1) cache   often called primary cache, is a static memory integrated with processor core that is used to store information recently accessed by a processor.  
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Level 2 (L2) cache   also called secondary cache, is a memory that is used to store recently accessed information.  
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