[rektide]

there was going to be an x300 chipset for ryzen that was basically just a boot rom. afaik it never happened.

but i definitely imagine, at some point, the main memory becomes semi optional too. basically we just have chips, with huge huge buck converters around them. and a couple data pipes optionally reaching out.

[flatiron]

Kinda stink when you can’t upgrade components though. Gotta toss the whole thing out then.

[rektide]

generally i imagine most folks do want to use the gratis/free/included couple channels of memory bandwidth and the 20x channels of pcie.

the x300 said, screw the southbridge expander which i think is legit, a pretension which deserved to be dropped. but yeah i think most will want to just the main memory.

otoh with usb4 and it's mandatory host to host connectivity i am legit hoping we find some kick ass glueless non-coherent connectivity across cores. pcie was very close but the need to have ntb support complicated. my hope is that eith modern usb4 there's no excuse for missing good inter-system connectivity.

but what value that southbridge/chipset provides? very specious.