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
She did not answer their questions and stood there like a robot whose motherboard had shorted out.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2024
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
There are 15 tiny screws underneath the casing, and a further three, equally tiny but a slightly different size, that attach the motherboard to the frame.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 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
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
Until last year, Lenovo flew in one crucial component — so-called motherboards — from a factory in China.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
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
Their innards showed again: wires, cables, motherboards, randomly blinking lights.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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