motherboard

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

At the back of the workshop, Lukas, a technician, checks out the motherboard of an old laptop.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023

"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

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

Utilizing bits and pieces of wires and motherboards, costume designer Cedric Mizero and hair/makeup creative director Tanya Melendez craft a beautiful, inventive and imaginative look for the warriors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

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