Why can’t companies like Apple (AppleSilicon) or other ARM chip making companies just make really big chips that would outperform anything and everything we currently have? Disregarding battery life and heat issues, what about a laptop that is only one mega chip that takes up all the inside?
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One aspect is modularity. A single CPU that only functions as a CPU can be paired with multiple and various periphery chips to build out a system for specific purposes.
Case in point, a laptop doesn’t need 8 SATA connections, so there is no reason to have periphery chips on the motherboard to support that. They can just incorporate the needed amount. If all that was on the motherboard was in the CPU instead, you wouldn’t have that modularity and there would be those unused resources being powered.
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