Word: motherboard
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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...make things worse, by the early 90s Intel had begun to turn a lucrative profit on the so-called motherboard chipset that supported the CPU. Manufacturers had to build bulky, awkward system boards to house Intel's CPU and its separate input-output chips...
What's more, Cyrix's new MediaGX chips began to integrate most of the motherboard components and the CPPU on a single chip. System integrators such as Compaq have responded by designing systems around these chips that require much less engineering and electronic assembly, slashing prices to levels unheard-of a year...
...area resembles not so much a city as a computer motherboard or a printed circuit. As Thomas Pynchon describes it through the eyes of Oedipa Maas in The Crying of Lot 49, "The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had. Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate...