The name Radu is of Romanian origin. The meaning of Radu is happy. Radu is generally used as a boy's name. It consists of 4 letters and 2 syllables and is pronounced Ra-du.
The Northbridge is the portion of the chipset HUB that connects faster I/O buses (for example, an AGP bus) to the system bus. Northbridge SI also bigger looking then the Southbridge chip. The Southbridge is the HUB that connects to slower I/O buses (for example, An ISA bus) to the system bus.
Related Terms. In Northbridge/Southbridge chipset architecture designs, the Northbridge is the chip or chips that connect a CPU to memory, the PCI bus, Level 2 cache and AGP activities. The Northbridge chips communicate with the CPU through the FSB. The Northbridge chip is one of two chips that control the functions of the chipset.