System Diagram of A Modern Laptop

From Wikipedia Intel X58

  

• Intel X58: Intel X58 Chipset
• QPI: The Intel QuickPath Interconnect is a point-to-point processor interconnect developed by Intel to compete with HyperTransport
• I/O Controller Hub (ICH), also known as Intel 82801, is an Intel southbridge on motherboards with Intel chipsets (Intel Hub Architecture). As with any other southbridge, the ICH is used to connect and control peripheral devices.
• EHCI: The Enhanced Host Controller Interface (EHCI) specification describes the register-level interface for a Host Controller for the Universal Serial Bus (USB) Revision 2.0.
• DMI: Direct Media Interface (DMI) is point-to-point interconnection between an Intel northbridge and an Intel southbridge on a computer motherboard. It is the successor of the Hub Interface used in previous chipsets. It provides for a 10Gb/s bidirectional data rate.
• LPC: The Low Pin Count bus, or LPC bus, is used on IBM-compatible personal computers to connect low-bandwidth devices to the CPU, such as the boot ROM and the "legacy" I/O devices (behind a super I/O chip).
• SPI: The Serial Peripheral Interface Bus or SPI (pronounced "ess-pee-i" or "spy") bus is a synchronous serial data link standard named by Motorola that operates in full duplex mode. Devices communicate in master/slave mode where the master device initiates the data frame.
• Intel Matrix Storage Technology: It provides new levels of protection, performance, and expandability for desktop and mobile platforms. Whether using one or multiple hard drives, users can take advantage of enhanced performance and lower power consumption. When using more than one drive, the user can have additional protection against data loss in the event of a hard drive failure.
• Intel Turbo Memory with User Pinning: An on-motherboard flash card, Intel's Turbo Memory is designed to act as another layer in the memory hierarchy, caching data where possible and improving performance/battery life in notebooks. User pinning offers more options to the user to improve system applications launch time and responsiveness.