What is Southbridge?
If you haven’t heard of SouthBridge, it’s a good thing you’ve now been properly advised because the $150 million project-encompassing a four-acre stretch along the southern canal banks from Scottsdale Road to west of Goldwater Boulevard-is set to revitalize the formerly mundane landscape of downtown into a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly destination bridging Scottsdale Fashion Square and the new Scottsdale Waterfront to the historic 5th Avenue shopping district. Not your typical shopping/dining/residential/office development, SouthBridge developer Fred Unger has pulled together an impressive team of architects, restaurateurs, contractors and financiers to transform his dynamic urban village concept, complete with bustling “high-fashion boutiques, independent shops, internationally renowned cuisine, lively cultural festivals, art, and the romantic charm of a waterfront park,” into reality. The first phase of the project, slated to open in the coming months, is comprised of four dynamic bui
If you’re in the market for a motherboard you’ll likely come across much talk about chipsets. The chipset of a motherboard is so important that many people will chose a motherboard based on the chipset manufacturer they prefer. The chipset is made up of two main chips: the Northbridge and Southbridge chips, a central part of the mainboard’s architecture. A handful of some of the more popular chipset manufacturers include nVidia®, Intel®, AMD®, SiS®, VIA®, and ATI®. There is no overriding standard for designing chipset architecture and competition drives innovation and change. In the basic model the Northbridge chip handles the faster communication needs of the computer. These include systems communication with the computer processing unit (CPU), video card slot, Random Access Memory (RAM), and the Southbridge chip. The Northbridge is also known as the Memory Controller Hub (MCH), or Integrated Memory Controller (IMC). The Southbridge controls the slower I/O or in-and-out devices. These
