Computer-related introductions in 1997

thumb|Each of the most popular emoji from the 9 major emoji categories according to the Unicode Emoji Frequency study from 2021, rendered in the Noto Color Emoji font

.sh is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, although it is primarily used in Saint Helena (Ascension Island has its own ccTLD, .ac). Registrations of internationalised domain names are also accepted.

set of media access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) specifications

family of Intel microprocessors

MultiMediaCard (MMC) is a memory card standard used for solid-state storage, originally introduced in 1997 by SanDisk, Siemens, and Nokia. Designed as a compact, low-pin-count, postage‑stamp‑sized card alternative to earlier storage solutions, MMC uses a serial interface and a single memory stack assembly, making it smaller and simpler than high-pin-count, parallel-interface cards such as CompactFlash, which was previously developed by SanDisk.

instruction set designed by Intel

microarchitecture

alt=|thumb|A physical Wake-on-LAN connector (white object in foreground) featured on the IBM PCI Token-Ring Adapter 2

'''AC'97' (Audio Codec '97; also 'MC'97' for Modem Codec '97'') is an audio codec standard developed by Intel Architecture Labs and various codec manufacturers in 1997. The standard was used in motherboards, modems, and sound cards.

[[File:Atxscale.svg|thumb|ATX motherboard size comparison; rear is on left.

pseudorandom number generator whose period is a Mersenne prime

The PalmPilot Personal and PalmPilot Professional are the second generation of Palm PDA devices produced by Palm Inc (then a subsidiary of U.S. Robotics, later 3Com). These devices were launched on March 10, 1997.

series of personal computers by Apple

graphics processing unit developed by Nvidia

The TI-86 is a programmable graphing calculator introduced in 1996 which was produced by Texas Instruments. The TI-86 uses the Zilog Z80 microprocessor. It is partially backwards-compatible with its predecessor, the TI-85.

limited-edition Apple computer

line of laptop Macintosh computers by Apple Computer

computer product line

WinChip is a discontinued series of low-power Socket 7-based x86 processors that was designed by Centaur Technology and marketed by its parent company IDT.

The MediaGX CPU is an x86-compatible processor that was designed by Cyrix and manufactured by National Semiconductor following the two companies' merger. It was introduced in 1997. The core is based on the integration of the Cyrix Cx5x86 CPU core with hardware to process video and audio output (XpressRAM, XpressGRAPHICS, XpressAUDIO). Following the buyout of Cyrix by National Semiconductor and the sale of the Cyrix name and trademarks to VIA Technologies, the core was developed by National Semiconductor into the Geode line of processors, which was subsequently sold to Advanced Micro Devices.

file format family based on the Microsoft Wave file format

microprocessor developed by Sun Microsystems

personal computer by Apple

series of computer workstation models

Unix workstation from Silicon Graphics

laptop by Apple

personal computer

subnotebook in Apple Computer's PowerBook range of Macintosh computers

personal computer by Apple

personal computer by Apple

personal computer by Apple

personal computer by Apple

picoJava is a microprocessor specification dedicated to native execution of Java bytecode without the need for an interpreter or just-in-time compilation. The aim is to speed bytecode execution up by up to 20 times, compared to standard Intel CPU with a Java virtual machine. GNU Compiler Collection added picoJava support in 1999 as machine definition 'pj,'. The open-source version of picoJava has been implemented in an FPGA.

Unicode character

line of internet appliances

file format family