Understanding motherboard chipsets is crucial for PC performance, but often goes unnoticed by most users. Northbridge and Southbridge handle various communication functions for RAM, graphics cards ...

At CES 2025, Intel disclosed three new Arrow Lake-S desktop chips and confirmed the launch of the B860 and H810 chipsets for new motherboards.

Both chipsets will also support a PCIe 5.0 x4 connection for a single ultra-fast SSD in an M.2 slot. All of these features are present on the AMD X670E chipset, too.