A CPU shim (also called CPU spacer) is a shim used between the CPU and the heat sink in a computer. Shims make it easier and less risky to mount a heatsink...

Look up shim in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shim may refer to: Shim (spacer), a thin and often tapered or wedged piece of material CPU shim, a spacer...

precision wedges for that purpose. On printed circuit boards, special CPU shims are used to protect the central processing unit when installing a heat...

In computer programming, a shim is a library that transparently intercepts API calls and changes the arguments passed, handles the operation itself or...

which prevents the CPU die from being damaged accidentally when mounting and unmounting heat sinks. With prior AMD CPUs, a CPU shim could be used by people...

damaged when mounting and unmounting cooling solutions. Prior to the IHS, a CPU shim was some times used by people worried about damaging the core. Overclockers...

Xbox One and Series X/S List of Xbox games compatible with Xbox 360 ReactOS Shim (computing) Software regression Vendor lock-in Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz,...

card. The rendering takes place entirely in the CPU. Rendering everything with the (general-purpose) CPU has the main advantage that it is not restricted...

informally PIII or P3) brand refers to Intel's 32-bit x86 desktop and mobile CPUs based on the sixth-generation P6 microarchitecture introduced on February...

command. After it is switched on, a computer's central processing unit (CPU) has no software in its main memory, so some process must load software into...

video decoding on the IVA-HD in OMAP4-based platforms via a syslink/rcm shim layer accessing the OMAP's Codec Engine API codec interface on the co-processor...

Paravirtualization Emulator Cross-platform virtualization Computing platform Shim (computing) Driver wrapper Glue code Charlie Russel, Microsoft MVP for Windows...

Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer components such as CPUs and related products for business and consumer markets. It is considered...

their firmware. Fedora also uses shim,[which?] but requires that both the kernel and its modules be signed as well. shim has Machine Owner Key (MOK) that...

post-CES model. Core i5 and i7 CPU options. SSD-only. Nvidia GT330m GPU. Z12 - September 2010, updated iXXX series CPUs, sim card holder added to North...

because the routines have different calling conventions, run in different CPU modes or address spaces, or at least one runs in a virtual machine. A compiler...

can be hosted in incompatible environments using a translation layer, or shim. For example, FL Studio only supports its own internal plugin architecture...

three files are needed for a slower software emulation: Wow64cpu.dll, a "CPU abstraction layer"; IA32Exec.bin, the x86 software emulator; and Wowia32x...

Conference & Expo, New York City. Like the iMac, the iBook G3 had a PowerPC G3 CPU, and no legacy Apple interfaces. USB, Ethernet, modem ports and an optical...

evaluating the query, in terms of the number of I/O operations required, CPU path length, amount of disk buffer space, disk storage service time, and...

provide mechanisms that deploy, maintain, and scale applications based on CPU, memory or custom metrics. Kubernetes is loosely coupled and extensible to...

Siegel, Gabriel; Regelman, Dan; Maronpot, Robert; Rosenstock, Moti; Hayashi, Shim-mo; Nyska, Abraham (Oct 2018). "Utilizing novel telepathology system in preclinical...

(via the ECB Shim board) S-100 bus: Z80 S-100 m68k S-100 (In progress) 8086 S-100 (In progress) 6502/6809 ECB + carrier boards for other cpu's (?) Other:...

2 or systemd-boot as a bootloader. If UEFI Secure Boot is supported, a "shim" or "Preloader" is often booted by the UEFI before the bootloader or EFI-stub-bearing...

was released in early 2010. Via/x86 CPU 4.5 W Fewer physical parts Lower power use Power option: solar panel. CPU: 400 to 1000 MHz IA-32 x86 VIA C7 at...

exposed by the driver, Nvidia partially implemented it through a driver-based shim, coming at a high performance cost. Unlike AMD's competing GCN-based graphics...

Processing Unit (CPU, Computer), Analog 7021: ADP Central Processing Unit (CPU, Computer), Digital 7022: ADP Central Processing Unit (CPU, Computer), Hybrid...

extension API, which was not designed to work cross-process and required shim code to function correctly. After over a year in beta, the rewrite was enabled...

(LSMs) Scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) Scanning helium ion microscopes (SHIMs) X-ray Microscopes (XRMs) The name Zeiss Ikon can also be found in old cinemas...

Libraries written in C may also be used in applications by injection of a small shim and usage of the JNI. In current versions of Android, "Toybox", a collection...