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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Those chips cost money and take up valuable mobo space. While the integrated graphics costs money, it costs less money than those chips cost.
Oh yes, and making it harder for AMD to make money is something Intel is very, very keen to do. Intel offers mobo makers a way to save money, and it causes AMD to spend lots of staff-years designing new graphics circuits instead of having mobo makers buy chips. That’s what Intel calls a WIN-WIN.
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