Post #2028978

@getimiskon @Error The Northbridge handled high-speed I/O like talking to the RAM. That has all been merged into the CPU directly. The rest of the chipset is basically just the Southbridge: low-speed stuff like USB, SATA, and slow PCIe lanes (a lot of systems have PCIe 3 or 4 from the processor directly, but a bunch of peripherals only need PCIe 2 from the Southbridge). Some processors are also taking this over. For example, Intel’s Atom C2000 and C3000 lines provide everything from the processor.