[Meganet]

Thats often enough not true. They mostly are just integrated

I know the distinction feels very thin but come one, a GPU chips complexity is far beyond a sound or nic chip and i don't think that comparision is fair at all.

You are not adding a network card to your desktop pc to have significant better network.

And they don't even make new soundcards since 2021.

[Dalewyn]

What part of discrete components do you not understand?

[Meganet]

Why so snarky?

There are mainboards who integrate this type of stuff onto their mainboard controller