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

"They had the same motherboard communication system with the driver board, and with the lightboard and the soundboard. So they were somewhat interchangeable," Ashley said.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2023

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