IHV Last modified: Wednesday, February 25, 2009
(pronounced as separate letters) Short for Independent hardware vendor, a hardware-manufacturing company that specializes in a specific type of hardware device and not a complete computer system. The IHV typically also provides the software drivers for its hardware devices. Contrast with OEM.
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