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If the processor comes with builtin GPU, NPU and RAM will you be really building the system
by blackoil 1y ago
If the processor comes with builtin GPU, NPU and RAM will you be really building the system
- charcircuit 1y agoYes, as that's already the case with phones. There is more to a phone than the SOC.
- fourthark 1y agoWho builds phones?
- charcircuit 1y agoIt's mostly factory workers. But hobbyists could do so too if they wanted. Most people want to just buy something that works out of the box so it's not a popular option.
- hombre_fatal 1y agoSure. Building a PC already is barely building anything. You buy a handful of components and click them into each other.
- navigate8310 1y agoA lot of flexibility still exists
- lizknope 1y agoWhile that is mostly true there is a large variety of motherboards. It took me a while to find something with the right SATA and PCIE slots that I wanted. But after that it is just using a screwdriver and some cable ties.
- danparsonson 1y agoRAM? Are we expecting on-chip RAM any time soon?
- theodric 1y agoApple's done it since 2020. Intel was planning to, but walked it back. It dramatically increases performance, and allows vendors to sell you RAM at 8x the market price, and requires you to replace your entire computer to upgrade it, thereby inducing you to overspend on RAM from the outset so that you don't have to spend even more to replace the entire system later. There's literally no reason for shareholders not to demand this from every computer manufacturer. Pay up, piggie.
- intrasight 1y agoExactly. Better performance and higher profits. Seems inevitable to me.
- hulitu 1y ago> allows vendors to sell you RAM at 8x the market price, and requires you to replace your entire computer to upgrade it, Good luck then. Some of us build our own computers to be upgreadable.
- theodric 1y agoSame, but about ten years after the last modular RAM computers go on the market, you and I are both going to have a Problem. Incidentally, this is why I bought a hot air rework station and a heater. Won't help me if they blow an efuse on the package to permanently set the RAM spec, or use part pairing For Your Security And Protection, but maybe they won't all be that evil.