Southbridge is one of the chipsets on a PC motherboard which handles communications among Northbridge, peripheral device interfaces such as USB, Sata, PCI and Ethernet.
The Southbridge implements the slower capabilities of the motherboard in a typical northbridge/southbridge chipset configuration. A Southbridge chipset handles all of the computers I/O functions, such as USB, audio, serial, the system BIOS, the ISA bus, the interrupt controller and the IDE or SATA channels.
Intel names Southbridge as Input/Output Controller Hub (ICH). AMD, beginning with its Fusion APUs, has named it as Fusion Controller Hub (FCH). The Southbridge is not directly connected to CPU but is linked to it via the Northbridge.
No comments:
Post a Comment