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