hardware system

Battery maintaining certain motherboard settings and clock functions.

Technology historically used for low-power motherboard memory circuits.

Startup hardware self-test performed before booting.

Modern firmware interface replacing traditional BIOS.

Firmware interface used to initialize and configure PC hardware.

Software stored in hardware for controlling its operation.

Low-level instructions controlling processor hardware.

Older x86 multimedia instruction extension.

Enhanced SSE instruction-set extension.

x86 SIMD instruction extension for multimedia operations.