Northbridge and Southbridge handle various ... allow overclocking on its lower-tier motherboards, like on the B650 chipset, Intel only allows overclocking on its Z motherboards.

Intel’s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has ... on a chip separate from the northbridge. For Core i3/i5/i7 processors ...

The IHA also optimizes data transfer based on data type. See Northbridge and Intel chipsets. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

In the past, the chipset consisted of a northbridge chip, which connected the CPU to the RAM and graphics card, and a southbridge chip, which connected the northbridge to the rest of the components.