[Meganet]

Thats often enough not true. They mostly are just integrated

I know the distinction feels very thin but come one, a GPU chips complexity is far beyond a sound or nic chip and i don't think that comparision is fair at all.

You are not adding a network card to your desktop pc to have significant better network.

And they don't even make new soundcards since 2021.

[Dalewyn]

What part of discrete components do you not understand?

[Meganet]

Why so snarky?

There are mainboards who integrate this type of stuff onto their mainboard controller

[Dalewyn]

I would implore you to look closer at motherboards. Most if not all have discrete components for the audio, NIC, USB, et al. on them.

The integration of those functions into the motherboard merely did away with the bulky physical connectors that take up space and complicate designs.