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Figure 5-4 Ancient 430VX chipset showing northbridge and southbridge

Chipsets were in pairs for many years, roughly from 1990 to around 2010.

Today’s CPUs have controllers built in, such as the memory and display

controllers. Almost all chipsets are now a single chip–Intel’s name for this

chip is Platform Controller Hub (PCH). Figure 5-5 shows a motherboard

with both the CPU and the PCH visible. AMD (and most of the tech industry)

refers to the chip as the chipset.

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