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    In computing, a northbridge (also host bridge, or memory controller hub) is a microchip that comprises the core logic chipset architecture on motherboards...
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    alongside the northbridge to manage communications between the central processing unit (CPU) and lower-speed peripheral interfaces. The northbridge typically...
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  • Illinois Northbridge (computing), a chip that implements the "faster" capabilities of the motherboard Nordbrücke (disambiguation) (German for Northbridge) This...
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  • Keyboard controller Programmable Interrupt Controller Northbridge (computing) Southbridge (computing) Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART)...
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  • Controller Hub (SCH) I/O Controller Hub (ICH) Super I/O Northbridge (computing) Southbridge (computing) "Chipsets For P5 Pentium Class". Retrieved 2011-03-03...
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    to a specific pair of chips on the motherboard: the northbridge and the southbridge. The northbridge links the CPU to very high-speed devices, especially...
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  • Controller Hub (SCH) PCI IDE ISA Xcelerator (PIIX) Northbridge (computing) Southbridge (computing) "[solved] How to add AHCI mod to ASUS "P5K SE" bios...
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  • communication networks to create an amalgamated network Northbridge (computing) and Southbridge (computing): two chips in the core logic chipset architecture...
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  • businesses, some which were re-acquired from Delphi Corporation Northbridge (computing) - Integrated video controllers also known as Graphics and Memory...
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    hardware and software forms a usable computing system, although other systems exist with only hardware. Early computing devices were more complicated than...
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    role in controlling the A20 line becoming integrated into the chipset's northbridge and then later into the CPU's built-in integrated memory controller....
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    generalized computing devices. Parallel GPUs are making computational inroads against the CPU, and a subfield of research, dubbed GPU computing or GPGPU...
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  • List of ATI chipsets (category Computing comparisons)
    This is a comparison of chipsets, manufactured by ATI Technologies. A-Link Express and A-Link Express II is essentially PCI-Express x4 lanes, so that any...
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  • for the Northbridge or host bridge, a microchip on some PC motherboards MicroTCA Carrier Hub, a component of the MicroTCA embedded computing standard...
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    In computing, Direct Media Interface (DMI) is Intel's proprietary link between the northbridge (or CPU) and southbridge (e.g. Platform Controller Hub...
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    computers. On the x86 architecture, prior to splitting the functionality of northbridge and southbridge between the CPU and Platform Controller Hub (PCH), I/O...
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    Computers have a motherboard that uses a Southbridge and Northbridge structure. The Northbridge is one of the core logic chipset that handles communications...
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    chipset, such as the northbridge. Whilst the processor family is best suited for thin client, set top box and embedded computing applications, it can...
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  • communicating heavily with the motherboard's central component, the Northbridge chipset, as it was the intermediary between the CPU, memory, and, in...
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    center, gaming, and high-performance computing markets. AMD's processors are used in a wide range of computing devices, including personal computers...
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  • Ethernet. The northbridge has a TDP of 13.8 Watts or an average of 8 Watts, and is pin compatible with RS485 northbridge. The northbridge supports HyperTransport...
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  • Expanding the width of a channel, for example that between a CPU and a northbridge, increases data throughput without requiring an increase in the channel's...
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    console. Many early consoles feature an audio coprocessor for example. Northbridge The processor unit that, outside of the CPU and GPU, typically manages...
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    List of AMD chipsets (category Computing comparisons)
    Before then, only APUs used FCHs, while their other CPUs still used a northbridge and southbridge. The Fusion Controller Hubs are similar in function to...
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    ABIT BP6 (category Parallel computing)
    based on the Intel Seattle 440BX chipset, consisting of the 82443BX Northbridge and the 82371AB Southbridge. Processors that are supported by the BP6...
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    address and data buses connect the CPU to the rest of the system via the "northbridge". Nearly every desktop CPU produced since the introduction of the 486DX2...
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    architecture central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), northbridge, southbridge, and memory controller onto one package. Early Tegra SoCs...
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    It was discontinued after a hardware bug in the MAI Logic ArticiaS northbridge was discovered. Later versions of the Pegasos I came with a hardware...
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    north bridge and a south bridge, Arrandale already contains the major northbridge components, which are the memory controller, PCI Express bus for external...
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    signals have a shorter physical distance to travel compared to the old northbridge interfaces. The result is a significant reduction in latency (response...
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