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by vardump 4189 days ago
20-30 years ago, x87 math processors were on a different chip. L2 SRAM caches were also on a different chip.

7 years ago memory controllers were on a separate chip.

Maybe 20 years from now, CPU needs just power and optical links. Some for inter-CPU communication. Other optical links go to USB 5.0 peripherals.