computer science

PNY

PNY is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand PNY rather than just read about it. In short: PNY Technologies, Inc., doing business as PNY, is an American manufacturer of flash memory cards, USB flash drives, solid state drives, memory upgrade modules, portable battery chargers, computer locks, cables, chargers, adapters, and consumer and professional graphics cards. The company is headquartered in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey.

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Key takeaways

PNY belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect PNY to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of PNY from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

PNY Technologies, Inc., doing business as PNY, is an American manufacturer of flash memory cards, USB flash drives, solid state drives, memory upgrade modules, portable battery chargers, computer locks, cables, chargers, adapters, and consumer and professional graphics cards. The company is headquartered in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. PNY stands for "Paris, New York", as they used to trade memory modules between Paris and New York.

History PNY Electronics, Inc. was founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1985 by Gadi Cohen as a company that bought and sold memory chips. In 1996, the company was headquartered in Moonachie, New Jersey, and had a manufacturing production plant there, an additional plant in Santa Clara, California, and served Europe from a third facility in Bordeaux, France. To emphasize its expansion into manufacturing new forms of memory and complementary products, the company changed its name to PNY Technologies, Inc. in 1997. The company has main offices in Parsippany, New Jersey; Santa Clara, California; Miami, Florida; Bordeaux, France, and Taiwan. In 2009, the New Jersey Nets sold the naming rights of their practice jerseys to PNY. In 2011, PNY moved its global headquarters and main manufacturing facility to a 40+ acre location on Jefferson Road in Parsippany, NJ.

Products

PNY is a memory and graphics technology company and manufacturer of computer peripherals, including the following products:

Flash memory cards USB flash drives Solid state drives Memory upgrades NVIDIA graphics cards HDMI cables DRAM modules Portable battery chargers HP Pendrive & MicroSD Cards Legacy products:

CD-R discs PNY has introduced water-cooled video cards and themed USB flash drives that include full films.

References

External links Official website

Illustrations

PNY: A 128 MB PNY Attaché USB flash drive (2004) — A 128 MB PNY Attaché USB flash drive (2004)

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with PNY

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what PNY claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to PNY before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about PNY ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of PNY

In research: PNY appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses PNY in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: PNY is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1985 establishments in New York City, American companies established in 1985, Companies based in Morris County, New Jersey, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for PNY outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study PNY in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what PNY means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain PNY out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is PNY in simple terms?

Why does PNY matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study PNY?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on PNY.

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