Articia I, AmigaTwo, 970

[Hammer]

Now that many CPU engineers are putting northbridges into the CPU core, I wonder how long it will be before it becomes common practice to solder the CPU into the motherboard, therefore "matching" a CPU to a chipset and thus offering a "guarentee" for the best possible performance.

Please recall “Cyrix GX” Media (X86) processor.   We know that was a failure for the desktop market**.
There’s a limit before the 'all-in-one' solution is undesirable for the desktop market.  

**It found a place within embedded X86 markets…
 AMD has recently revisited Cyrix style ‘all-in-one’ X86 media processors under the "Geode" label…Refer to http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_9863,00.html

[Hammer]

 

Thats the way it has always been, MAI DO NOT design or manufacture Mobo's.

What about designing the “reference motherboard”?