Jeff Hsue, director of R & D at First International Computers, a Taiwanese firm whose principal products are motherboards, uses motherboards to illustrate the point. He says that the many different functions built into the motherboard each require a different chip. All of these must be matched to the heart of the computer--its CPU. If you change the CPU, you must also swap most of the chips on the motherboard.
以生產主機板為主要業務的大眾電腦公司研發部協理許俊岳舉例，一片主機板上，密密麻麻地排列著樣式、功能各異的晶片，用來搭配電腦的心臟﹘﹘微處理器（CPU）；微處理器一旦更換，主機板上大部份的晶片也要隨之汰換。