Friday, December 21st 2012
Intel Could Find a Way to Keep LGA CPUs: ASUS
In an interview with DigiTimes, ASUS general manager of motherboard business Joe Hsieh commented on reports of Intel abandoning CPU sockets in favor of processors being hardwired to motherboards in BGA packages. Hsieh said that the issue will not be as bad as people think and Intel could find a strategy that allows both soldered and socketed processors to be sold, which is much like today, except that hardwired processors are limited to notebooks (Core i3 and i5 processors in the BGA1224 package) and low-end Atom-driven desktop motherboards.
What lends Hsieh's statement weight, apart from the fact that he leads the biggest PC motherboard design team, is that Intel recently denied those reports, saying it would provide socketed CPUs for "the foreseeable future." Last month, Japanese publication PC Watch, credited for generally accurate tech predictions based on information at hand, reported that following its 22 nm Core "Haswell" CPU family, Intel could transform its entry-, mainstream-, and performance-segment client CPUs to hardwired BGA packages, probably leaving socketed CPUs only to HEDT (high-end desktop) and enterprise Xeon processor lines. Other PC motherboard vendors DigiTimes spoke with echoed ASUS' opinion, they don't believe Intel could "suddenly" completely change the way processors are sold to consumers.
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DigiTimes
What lends Hsieh's statement weight, apart from the fact that he leads the biggest PC motherboard design team, is that Intel recently denied those reports, saying it would provide socketed CPUs for "the foreseeable future." Last month, Japanese publication PC Watch, credited for generally accurate tech predictions based on information at hand, reported that following its 22 nm Core "Haswell" CPU family, Intel could transform its entry-, mainstream-, and performance-segment client CPUs to hardwired BGA packages, probably leaving socketed CPUs only to HEDT (high-end desktop) and enterprise Xeon processor lines. Other PC motherboard vendors DigiTimes spoke with echoed ASUS' opinion, they don't believe Intel could "suddenly" completely change the way processors are sold to consumers.
19 Comments on Intel Could Find a Way to Keep LGA CPUs: ASUS
Or in my case with Lian Li case, i'd want to connect back of the mobo to the entire aluminium side panel. It would make one giant heatsink. Along with internal CPU cooler.
You'll just set balls on fire instead of pins. Balls are even more fragile.Actually, the LGA socket itself is soldered to the motherboard with balls.I don't see any of this an issue. 10% of a multi-billion market is still billions...there's profit to be made by catering to enthusiasts...just might not be room for all the companies we have today.
Yeah.
That's why so many companies had a product or two that had issues...it was industry-wide.
Or maybe intel is having problems reducing power! especially on the IGP front. If we look at the mobile IGP (AMD & Intel), we see that AMD needs a fraction of the power that Intel needs for their IGP, the opposite can be said for Intel on the CPU vs AMD but still the CPU difference isn't as big as is on the IGP :banghead: even then it still don`t make sense why they need to do that.
It could be that Intel wants to cut out as many middle men as possible to gain profits as the markets decline, desperate times needs desperate measures maybe :eek: Yup, this last one kinda makes more sense :toast:
I suspect what this really means is that mobile chips and low-profile platforms will be soldered to the board, where mainstream and enthusiast markets will retain some form of socket to allow interchangeability.
I would have to say the biggest benefit to BGA chips would be to reduce the overall height of components on the motherboard for mobile/low-profile devices to allow for lighter and thinner devices.
Edit: Don't you love the off-die L2 cache? :)