In olden days before the core series from Intel, motherboards used to have small graphics chipset on it. Rather than being integrated on the cpu. Why was this discontinued? Current gen mainstream AMD cpus do not have processor based graphics like the Intel ones do. (the G series parts come very late and technically are low end stuff.) sometimes you do not need a discreet gpu. So why was chipset graphics discontinued, it could have been used to decrease the cpu complexity on Intel side. While Amd would not need to have to launch apus. Hence saving development time.
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We wanted to connect the memory directly to the CPU, instead of going through a “north bridge” chipset. Basically, the CPU absorbed the chipset. It’s because there was room, due to shrinking transistors. That also mean motherboards can become simpler.
But as a result, we are now dependent on the CPU for a lot of things. Typically, desktop and laptop CPU include an integrated graphics part, while server CPU don’t. AMD decided to not even include one on the desktop parts, only the laptop parts have one, their idea being that most people have a graphics card on desktop.
I do agree it’s useful to have integrated graphics even on a desktop that don’t use it, if only to diagnose issue with the graphic card.
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