Motherboard

Motherboard

aka -

• mb
• mainboard
• base board
• main circuit board
• planar board
• system board
• (Apple = 'logic board')

Motherboard is king: 

1. supplies power & 
2. lets other hardware components communicate 

Integrated Circuits (ICs)
= mounted on Motherboard

ICs aka:

• Integrated Chip 
• Microchip
• Bare chip
• Monolithic integrated circuit

Motherboard contains:

• circuits 
• pathways
• transistors 
• + other electronic items 

that do specific function or series of functions

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Circuitboard
= 1936, radio

Integrated Circuits
= 1952 British radar engineer concept
= 1958 developed USA, see hand calculator & Intel

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 SOURCE http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/pcb.htm

DETAILED DIAGRAM & Links to info on components of motherboard:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/m/mothboar.htm