AI Factory Glossary

h-gate,design

Body contact on both sides.

h-tree, design & verification

H-tree topology creates balanced clock distribution through recursive H-shaped branching.

h-tree,design

Symmetric tree structure for clock.

h100,a100,datacenter gpu

A100/H100 are NVIDIA data center GPUs for AI. Huge VRAM + fast HBM + strong Tensor Cores = ideal for large LLM training and high-throughput inference.

h2o cache, h2o, optimization

Keep most important KV pairs.

h3 (hungry hungry hippos),h3,hungry hungry hippos,llm architecture

Hybrid SSM+attention architecture.

half-pitch,lithography

Half the pitch used as resolution metric.

halide, model optimization

Halide separates algorithm from schedule enabling portable high-performance image processing.

hall effect measurement, metrology

Determine carrier concentration and mobility.

hallucination detection, ai safety

Identify false statements.

hallucination in llms, challenges

Generating false information.

hallucination, evaluation

Hallucination generates plausible-sounding but false or unsupported information.

hallucination,confabulation,grounding

Hallucination: model generates false info confidently. Mitigate with RAG, grounding, citations, and temperature 0.

halo implant, process integration

Halo implants are angled pocket implants placed asymmetrically to suppress drain-induced barrier lowering.

halo implant,process

Angled implant to reduce short-channel effects.

halstead metrics, code ai

Software complexity measures.

halt (highly accelerated life test),halt,highly accelerated life test,reliability

Extreme stress test to find failure modes.

halt vs hass, halt, reliability

Discovery vs screening.

halt, halt, business & standards

Highly Accelerated Life Test discovers design weaknesses through extreme combined stresses.

ham, ham, reinforcement learning

Hierarchical RL framework.

ham, ham, reinforcement learning advanced

Hierarchical Abstract Machines define task decompositions through partial policies constraining action selection.

hamiltonian dynamics learning, scientific ml

Learn energy-conserving dynamics.

hamiltonian monte carlo (hmc),hamiltonian monte carlo,hmc,statistics

Efficient MCMC using gradients.

hamiltonian neural networks, scientific ml

Learn energy-conserving dynamics.

han, han, graph neural networks

Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network uses hierarchical attention at node-level and semantic-level to learn from multi-relational graph structures.

handle wafer, advanced packaging

Support wafer in bonded pair.

handle wafer,substrate

Supporting wafer in SOI.

handshake protocol, design & verification

Handshake protocols coordinate transfers across clock domains using request-acknowledge signaling.

hard bake,lithography

High-temperature bake to harden resist before etching.

hard example mining, advanced training

Hard example mining focuses training on samples with high loss or misclassification to improve model performance on difficult cases.

hard example mining, machine learning

Focus on difficult examples.

hard ip,design

Physical layout of IP block.

hard negative mining, rag

Hard negative mining selects challenging negative examples improving embedding quality.

hard negative mining, recommendation systems

Hard negative mining selects challenging negative examples that model incorrectly ranks highly.

hard negative mining, self-supervised learning

Focus on difficult negative examples.

hard parameter sharing, multi-task learning

Share most parameters.

hard prompt search,prompt engineering

Search over discrete text prompts.

hard prompt, prompting techniques

Hard prompts use discrete natural language tokens.

hard routing, llm architecture

Hard routing assigns tokens exclusively to selected experts.

hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, haxpes, metrology

Bulk-sensitive XPS using hard X-rays.

hardmask for beol,beol

Etch-resistant layer for metal patterning.

hardware roadmap,node,capacity

I can help you reason about process nodes, foundry capacity, and how hardware trends affect AI cost and performance.

hardware-aware design, model optimization

Hardware-aware design optimizes architectures for specific deployment platforms considering latency memory and energy.

hardware-aware nas, neural architecture

Search considering hardware constraints.

hardware-aware nas, neural architecture search

Hardware-aware neural architecture search optimizes architectures jointly for accuracy and hardware metrics like latency energy or memory footprint.

hardware-software co-design, edge ai

Jointly optimize hardware and algorithms.

harmful content, ai safety

Harmful content includes text promoting violence illegal activity or other dangers.

harmony generation,audio

Generate chord progressions.

hash grid encoding, 3d vision

Efficient spatial encoding.

hash routing, llm architecture

Hash routing deterministically assigns tokens based on hashing.