True, AMD has been kind in that regard, their initial idea with AMD 64 is to move the memory controller to the die, now nearly all the functions of the Northbridge on motherboards is being included in the CPU due to the area now shrunk down in a die-downsizing! GPUs needed some serious re-working, but I wonder about the advantage of having it ALL under one roof, the motherboard then caters to far fewer specific functions at the end of the day, but it should prove interesting as well.
I want to hear of what Broadwell will offer, and whether those two will cater to Enthusiasts as well as average Joe computer owners?!
I just Googled up this report, for example... I'm sure we'll know more in the months ahead as well, as it's closer to becoming the choice offering for purchase
http://phys.org/news...-swap-outs.html
As an aside, GPU, or the Graphics discrete solutions are also evolving but not by much in the new year, to be more specific, the current technology is rather well endowed, with CUDA cores and actual processing capability by the GPU to do what was once a CPU chore, having a good CPU and GPU will help aid the system's overall performance as they share massive data crunching duties