Editing System on a chip (section)

=== Personal computers ===
In 1992, [[Acorn Computers]] produced the [[Acorn Archimedes#New range and a laptop|A3010, A3020 and A4000 range of personal computers]] with the ARM250 SoC. It combined the original Acorn ARM2 processor with a memory controller (MEMC), video controller (VIDC), and I/O controller (IOC). In previous Acorn [[ARM architecture|ARM]]-powered computers, these were four discrete chips. The ARM7500 chip was their second-generation SoC, based on the ARM700, VIDC20 and IOMD controllers, and was widely licensed in embedded devices such as set-top-boxes, as well as later Acorn personal computers.

Tablet and laptop manufacturers have learned lessons from embedded systems and smartphone markets about reduced power consumption, better performance and reliability from tighter [[System integration|integration]] of hardware and [[firmware]] [[Module system|modules]], and [[LTE (telecommunication)|LTE]] and other [[wireless network]] communications integrated on chip (integrated [[network interface controller]]s).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.qualcomm.com/products/modems|title=Gigabit Class LTE, 4G LTE and 5G Cellular Modems {{!}} Qualcomm|work=Qualcomm|access-date=2018-10-13|language=en}}</ref>

On modern laptops and mini PCs, the low-power variants of [[AMD Ryzen]] and [[Intel Core]] processors use SoC design integrating CPU, IGPU, chipset and other processors in a single package. However, such x86 processors still require external memory and storage chips.