*Circuitry that ‘glues’ CPU, memory, buses & interfaces together. Made by Intel, VIA, SIS, ALI * Commonly consists of 2 chips, referred to as ‘Northbridge’ and ‘Southbridge’. * Motherboard is designed around chipset and CPU. The old way of doing chipsets has two components, the northbridge and the southbridge. The northbridge communicates with the CPU over the Front Side Bus (FSB) and acts as the controller for memory, AGP and PCI. The type of FSB, memory and AGP varies from northbridge to...