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
Flora points out a motherboard in the palm of one plastic hand - that's the computer that will translate the user's nerve signals into movement.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 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
To recover gold in the laboratory experiment, the team salvaged the electronic motherboards from 20 old computer motherboards and extracted the metal parts.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
At Rashim’s shop, a worker looks for broken motherboards that can’t be sent for further processing.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2022
Their innards showed again: wires, cables, motherboards, randomly blinking lights.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
