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 Southbridge is the chip that controls all of the computers I/O functions, such as USB, audio, serial, the system BIOS, the ISA bus, the interrupt controller and the IDE channels. In other words, all of the functions of a processor except memory, PCI and AGP.