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Across
  1. 5. have a thermal conductor that carries heat away from the heat source
  2. 6. better choice for data analytics or gaming workloads
  3. 8. international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts
  4. 9. American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication
  5. 11. device that acts as a building block for digital circuits
  6. 16. primary component of any computer or electronic device.
  7. 18. the operating speed of a computer
  8. 20. communication system that transfers data between components inside a computer or between computers
  9. 21. specific unit of data that's equal to about 1 billion bytes of data
  10. 23. semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power
  11. 25. allows you to use CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs to listen to music or watch a movie
  12. 26. temporary memory in your computer
  13. 28. one of a small set of data holding places that are part of the computer processor
Down
  1. 1. the southbridge manages the slower input/output (I/O) operations and connects devices like hard drives (HD), universal serial bus (USB) devices, and audio interfaces.
  2. 2. basic operation of modern computer systems
  3. 3. computer's central communications backbone connectivity point
  4. 4. hardware or software that is used to store something, usually data, temporarily in a computing environment
  5. 7. set of electronic components on one or more integrated circuits
  6. 10. combinational digital circuit that performs arithmetic and bitwise operations on binary numbers
  7. 12. computer expansion card that generates a feed of graphics output to a display device such as a monitor
  8. 13. giga hertz and measures how fast a computer processes
  9. 14. numbering scheme in which there are only two possible values for each digit -- 0 or 1 --
  10. 15. using a quartz crystal
  11. 17. 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, or 1,000 gigabytes
  12. 19. basic input/output system
  13. 20. smallest unit of data that a computer can process and store
  14. 22. handles the high-speed communication between the CPU, memory, and graphics card
  15. 24. a component of a computer's central processing unit
  16. 27. a group of binary digits or bits (usually eight) operated on as a unit.
  17. 29. better choice if you are dealing with data backups, data archives, or throughput-intensive workloads