The place where all internal parts such as the main processor, memory, hard disk ,graphics card, tv-tuner card are mounted on, is called Mother board. It looks like the old television set integrated circuit board. There are various ports and slots to connect or place the different hardware devices.
Here I am giving a list of mother board manufacturers:
- Acer Inc.
- Aopen
- ASrock
- Asus
- BFG technologies
- Biostar
- Chaintech
- eVGA
- Gigabyte technology
- Foxconn
- Intel
- Leadtek
- Magic-Pro
- PNY technologies
- Tyan
The world leader in mother board manufacturing is Intel and Asus.
Chipset:
A chipset is a group
of integrated circuits ("chips") that are designed to work together,
and are usually marketed as a single product. In computing, the term
chipset is commonly used to refer to the specialized motherboard chips on
a computer or expansion card. When discussing personal computers (PCs) based
on recent Intel Pentium-class systems, the term "chipset" often
refers to the two main motherboard chips: Northbridge and
Southbridge. The manufacturer of a chipset often is independent from the
manufacturer of the motherboard. Examples of manufacturer of PC
motherboard chipsets include NVIDIA, ATI, VIA Technologies, SiS and Intel.
In
home computers, game consoles and arcade game hardware of the 1980s and 1990s,
the term chipset was used for the custom audio and graphics chips. Examples
include the Commodore Amiga's Original Chip Set or SEGA's System 16 chipset.
Computer
systems produced since the late 1980s share commonly used chipsets, even across
widely disparate computing specialties. For example, the NCR 53C9x, a low-cost chipset
implementing a SCSI interface to storage devices, could be found in Unix
machines (such as the MIPS Magnum), embedded devices and personal computers.
