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Motherboards
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ALSO CALLED: Boards, Interface Cards, PC Cards, and Mother Boards
DEFINITION: A motherboard is the physical arrangement in a computer that contains the computer's basic circuitry and components. On the typical motherboard, the circuitry is imprinted or affixed to the surface of a firm planar surface and usually manufactured in a single step. The most common motherboard design
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Adaptec Serial ATA RAID Powers Solutions from Major Motherboard Manufacturers
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PRESS RELEASE:Adaptec, Inc., a global leader in storage solutions, today announced that major motherboard makers Asustek, Gigabyte, Supermicro and Tyan have selected a new Adaptec Serial ATA RAID solution for design into next-generation motherboards. Posted: 18 Jul 2004 | Published: 12 Jan 2004
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MOTHERBOARDS DEFINITION (continued): … in desktop computers today is the AT, based on the IBM AT motherboard. A more recent motherboard specification, ATX, improves on the AT design. In both the AT and ATX designs, the computer components included in the motherboard are: - The microprocessor
- (Optionally) coprocessors
- Memory
- basic input/output system (BIOS)
- Expansion slot
- Interconnecting circuitry
Additional components can be added to a …
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