A motherboard, also known as a mainboard, system board, logic board, and informally mobo, is the main printed circuit board in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems. It holds and allo
Mainboard of a NeXTcube computer (1990), featuring a Motorola 68040 microprocessor running at 25 MHz and a digital signal processor Motorola 56001 operating at 25 MHz. The DSP was directly accessible via a connector on the rear panel.
The Octek Jaguar V motherboard from 1993. This board has few onboard peripherals, as evidenced by the 6 slots provided for ISA cards and the lack of other built-in external interface connectors. Note the large AT keyboard connector at the back right is its only peripheral interface.
The motherboard of a Samsung Galaxy SII; almost all functions of the device are integrated into a very small board.
A motherboard of a Vaio E series laptop (right)
A central processing unit, also known as a central processor, main processor, or simply processor, is the primary processor in a given computer. Its electronic circuitry executes instructions of a com
Motherboard
…computers and other expandable systems. It holds and allows communication between many of the crucial electronic components of a system, such as the central processing unit (CPU) and memory, and provides connectors for other peripherals. Unlike a backplane, a motherboard usually contains significant sub-systems, such as…
The Core i9-14900KF, a 2023 CPU made by Intel
Inside a central processing unit: The integrated circuit of Intel's Xeon 3060, first manufactured in 2006
EDVAC, one of the first stored-program computers
IBM PowerPC 604e processor