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The Platform Controller Hub (PCH) is a family of Intel microchips, introduced circa 2008.

It is the successor to the previous Intel Hub Architecture, which used a northbridge and southbridge instead, and first appeared in the Intel 5 Series.

The Register is a British technology news and opinion website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson.

Situation Publishing Ltd is listed as the site's publisher.

Drew Culllen is an owner, Linus Birtles the managing director and Andrew Orlowski is the Executive Editor.

NeXT (later NeXT Computer and NeXT Software) was an American computer and software company founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs, based in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets.

NeXT was founded by Jobs after he was ousted at Apple, along with several co-workers.

NeXT introduced the first NeXT Computer in 1988, and the smaller NeXTstation in 1990.

The NeXT computers experienced relatively limited sales, with estimates of about 50,000 units shipped in total.

Nevertheless, their innovative object-oriented NeXTSTEP operating system and development environment were highly influential.

The ampere (SI unit symbol: A, dimension symbol: I), often shortened to "amp", is a unit of electric current.

In the International System of Units (SI) the ampere is one of the seven SI base units.

It is named after André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics.

Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming common during the 1980s.

They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user.

These computers were a distinct market segment that typically cost much less than business, scientific or engineering-oriented computers of the time such as the IBM PC, and were generally less powerful in terms of memory and expandability.

However, a home computer often had better graphics and sound than contemporaneous business computers.

Their most common uses were playing video games, but they were also regularly used for word processing, doing homework, and programming.