Right, AMD is a smaller company, they make cool technologies and Intel copies and changes them, its just how it seems to work. ON TOPIC, i was kinda confused about what everyone was saying with the socket, but it looks square to me?? as in the pin layout looks square, obviously the socket is square, but that seems kinda odd if the CPU is square?? or is the processor going to hang over the edge?? Ether way, AMD's pin layout was rectangle, so i imagine that AMD's CPUs will also be rectangle?? unless i'm missing something somewhere.