Or maybe what we are witnessing is the start of a process where the CPU withers down to an almost "Northbridge" level of responsibility. Both Nvidia and AMD are

Or maybe what we are witnessing is the start of a process where the CPU withers down to an almost "Northbridge" level of responsibility. Both Nvidia and AMD are perfectly capable of putting a weak core into a fat GPU, and are arguably only held back by our old friends Microsoft and Intel.