Hardware

Hardware may refer to:

Technology

Computing and electronics

• Electronic hardware, interconnected electronic components which perform analog or logic operations
  • Digital electronics, electronics that operate on digital signals
    • Computer hardware, physical parts of a computer
    • Networking hardware, devices that enable use of a computer network
  • Electronic component, device in an electronic system used to affect electrons, usually industrial products

Other technologies

• Household hardware, equipment used for home repair and other work, such as fasteners, wire, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, utensils, and machine parts
• Builders hardware, metal hardware for building fixtures, such as hinges and latches
• Hardware (development cooperation), in technology transfer
• Drum hardware, used to tension, position, and support the instruments
• Military technology, application of technology to warfare
• Music hardware, devices other than instruments to create music

Entertainment

• Hardware (Krokus album), 1981
• Hardware (Billy Gibbons album), 2021
• Hardware (band), consisting of Bootsy Collins, Buddy Miles, and Stevie Salas
• Hardware (character), a character from Milestone Comics
• Hardware (film), a 1990 film
• Hardware (TV series), a British situation comedy
• Hardware: Online Arena, a 2002 video game
• "Hardware", a 1987 science fiction story by Robert Silverberg

Other uses

• Hardware, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fluvanna County, Virginia

See also

• Hardware acceleration, the speedup of computing tasks by performing them in customized hardware rather than software
• Hardware architecture, the identification of a system's physical components and their interrelationships
• Hardware engineering, or computer engineering
• Ware
• Open-source hardware
• Hardware store, a business which sells household hardware
• Materiel, equipment or hardware, and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management
• Medals
• Trophies
• Software
• Open-source software
• All pages with titles containing hardware

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