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Northbridge The first of the two chips that make up the chipset of a motherboard is called the Northbridge. The Northbridge handles data buses, cache controllers, system buses and CPU memory. Due to the nature of rapid changes in these sub-sections, Northbridge chips see updates more frequently than it companion, the Southbridge.
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