FCH
By Gabriel Torres on October 15, 2005

Firmware Controller Hub

On Intel chipsets that have this circuit, the system BIOS is stored in it. Besides that, this chip has a random number generator in order to increase the confiability on the cryptographic keys generated by the PC using this circuit.

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