motherboard
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For anyone who’s seen the inside of a desktop PC, there’s a CPU chip sitting in its own place in the motherboard, connected to separate slots filled with memory modules.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
She did not answer their questions and stood there like a robot whose motherboard had shorted out.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
At the back of the workshop, Lukas, a technician, checks out the motherboard of an old laptop.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023
It is a sleek pod — half spaceship, half motherboard, with glass floors and a ceiling circuited with green neon tubes — on the eighth floor of a building in the bustling Shibuya district.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2023
Eric’s computer: an AMD K-6 233 with a generic motherboard; an S3 video card, a 15-inch monitor; a 2.5 GB hard drive with 36 MB SDRAM.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
In Tokyo's tech hub of Akihabara, Charles Brousse, a 30-year-old graphic designer and custom PC builder from Belgium, said prices for RAM, graphics cards and motherboards have hit "ridiculous levels".
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
But she says she has never handled so many iPhones with fried motherboards and malfunctioning touch screens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
In this way, they obtained a nugget of around 450 milligrams out of the 20 computer motherboards.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
She grew up in Fremont, Calif., where her dad launched a startup out of their garage and she soldered motherboards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
They were all eight or ten feet tall, and full of not just wires and cables and motherboards, but also random blips of light flashing on and off.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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