Across
- 3. facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.
- 5. a particularly powerful mainframe computer.
- 7. the actions a processor performs when it receives information
- 9. data that is entered into or received by a computer
- 12. a semiconductor wafer on which thousands or millions of tiny resistors, capacitors, diodes and transistors are fabricated.
- 15. the electronic holding place for the instructions and data a computer needs to reach quickly
- 16. electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data
- 17. a piece of physical equipment that uses digital data, such as by sending, receiving, storing or processing it.
- 18. an electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program.
Down
- 1. the hardware in a computing device where the operating system (OS), application programs and data in current use are kept so they can be quickly reached by the device's processor
- 2. a piece of equipment used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system, such as a computer or information appliance.
- 4. American multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion, signal processing and power management technology,
- 6. generates the video signal sent to a computer display.
- 8. the smallest unit of data that a computer can process and store
- 9. principal part of any digital computer system, generally composed of the main memory, control unit, and arithmetic-logic unit.
- 10. the circuit board that connects all of your hardware to your processor
- 11. a computer device that stores and retrieves information, data, files, programs, etc., from a disk.
- 13. any piece of computer hardware equipment which converts information into a human-perceptible form
- 14. a computer program or device that provides a service to another computer program and its user, also known as the client.