Chipset

Diagram of a motherboard. Items labelled "Northbridge" and "Southbride" and "Super I/O" are chipsets.

A chipset is an arrangement of several integrated circuits which fulfill a given task. When talking about computers, chipset is the name for an arrangement of circuits on a motherboard that supports a microprocessor.

Chipset Media

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  Intel i945GC Northbridge with Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2220 2.40 GHz on an Intel D945GCCR motherboard (c. 2007)

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  Diagram of the original Amiga chipset

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  Part of an IBM ThinkPad T42 laptop motherboard showing the CPU, GPU, Northbridge (NB), and Southbridge (SB)

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  Intel Cannon Lake Platform Controller Hub (PCH) die