alt Hacker NewsYou are understating how integrated this stuff is. If you make an Intel client motherboard, all you need to add for the network is the phy, jack and some passives.
You are understating how integrated this stuff is. If you make an Intel client motherboard, all you need to add for the network is the phy, jack and some passives.
I haven't really been following intel boards. AM4/AM5 chipsets (and cpus) don't have integrated MACs. I didn't realize intel was putting them in for client parts (Xeon-D had them, but Xeon-D is weird :p)