chipset
- noun
- /ˈʧɪpˌsɛt/
- Specialized
- The motherboard's chipset controls how the processor communicates with the memory.
- Intel chipset
- chipset on the motherboard
- new chipset
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Watch on YouTubeAnd Amazon's also making its own server based chipsets.
- And Amazon's also making its own server based chipsets.
- And that's sort of a play on their laptop chipsets, which are Snapdragon Plus and Snapdragon Elite chipsets.
- AMD did steal Intel's entire chipset and CPU naming convention.
- one, but I think they'll argue it's a more stable, reliable chipset.
- Even so, don't really see the touring line of mobile chipsets being updated for at least a few months.
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The combination of the 2.26 GHz processor and the GM45 chipset provides high levels of performance.
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You will decide on the processor, use, the motherboard's chipset, the motherboard itself.
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We have talked about Windows 8 as Windows reimagined, from the chipset to the user experience.
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The target peripheral may be connected directly to the chipset, or there may be a switch network between them.
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This said, for most users, in most situations AB or H chipset is perfectly sufficient.
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Is that an I-11 chipset?
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Games optimized for the specific chipset on a gaming console will provide vastly superior graphics to its PC equivalent.
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Apple doubled the iPhone's RAM to 1GB and added the new A6 chipset, and the result is phenomenal.
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HTC traded out the 1.5GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset for a 1.7GHz variant, and the results of this are impressive.
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Choosing the right chipset can significantly impact the overall performance of a computer.
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Chipset is a modern compound of chip and set, where chip means a small electronic 'piece' (like a 'microchip') and set means a 'group'. So a chipset is a group of chips that work together to control parts of a computer.