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It'd be interesting to see a desktop system with almost everything running over PCIe. You could drop the chipset entirely at that point.
by teaearlgraycold 4y ago
It'd be interesting to see a desktop system with almost everything running over PCIe. You could drop the chipset entirely at that point.
- toast0 4y agoAmd's A300 and X300 chipsets for AM4 are just a bit of rom. Modern CPUs don't really need a chipset; AM4 chipsets connect to the CPU through PCIe, anyway.
- kalleboo 4y agoWe'll be right back in the S-100 bus days
- matja 4y agoAMD EPYC is already that, a SoC - there is no EPYC chipset. They all have 8x 16-lane multi-function interfaces, which can be configured to work as PCIe, xGMI (inter-socket communucation), or SATA, as well as built-in USB, eMMC, LPC, UART, I2C, SMBus, GPIO.
- undersuit 4y agoYeah, but somebody might insist that the IO-die means that the chipset has moved onto the CPU but still exists.