[dessimus]

I mean, if you think about all the motherboard does, and how many layers the PCB has to support all the features such that for a vast majority of users, the only things you need besides the motherboard is a CPU, some RAM, storage (either in M.2 or SATA) and maybe a dGPU, it's wild that it is often the cheapest item in the PC.

[chainingsolid]

Well to be fair processors, ram and modern storage are lithography required to make parts. Not sure how much lithography the chipset requires.