Originally posted by WMCoolmon
Or maybe we'll start to see integrated game controllers, that link physics, video, and audio cards into one low-latency device.
Saves on drivers, and all the operations could be done on the card, and devs would have fewer combos of hardware to work with....Basically, a mini-console.
I don't think that will come true. NVIDIA's nForce motherboards where northbridge and southbridge are on same chip, presents higher development costs to produce successors for the chip. As you have seen from other motherboards, many use older southbridge combined with newer northbridge which saves money. Continuous development of a chip that integrates GPU, APU and PPU into one, cost most likely would be very high.
In the end, it is universally better approach to have a low-latency and high-bandwidth system bus which connects CPU, RAM, GPU, APU and any other devices. Then you only need to replace one of those if it becomes outdated. If you have one chip and only GPU becomes outdated, you'll end up paying more to buy another new chip that has it all.
And consoles are out there if you want one. No need to make PC another console.
