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hardware platform

American  

noun

  1. a group of compatible computers that can run the same software.


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The "Switch 2 remains the fastest selling video game hardware platform in tracked history", Circana's Mat Piscatella wrote on BlueSky.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

Nvidia’s newest generation artificial intelligence hardware platform known as Vera Rubin is in full production, CEO Jensen Huang said at the CES trade show in Las Vegas.

From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026

Meta still hasn’t disclosed how many Quest headsets it has sold to date, which makes it hard to gauge Horizon’s success relative to the underlying hardware platform it runs on.

From The Verge • Feb. 17, 2022

Alibaba, JD.com and Tencent have each launched their own smart hardware platform.

From Forbes • Dec. 2, 2014

Built to run on 386-based machines, Linux was firmly rooted to its low-cost hardware platform.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam