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Because they are BGA chips designed to be soldered on, and most people do not have the capacity to do that at home.
by wheybags 5y ago
Because they are BGA chips designed to be soldered on, and most people do not have the capacity to do that at home.
- bserge 5y agoAnd why are they BGA chips these days? That's the real problem. Did mobile CPUs somehow advance past desktop ones while I wasn't looking?
- quocanh 5y agoOf course they have! Take a look at ARM. Or Apple's M1 chip. It's crazy what mobile CPUs can do nowadays.
- bserge 5y agoAnd look at a Ryzen with an integrated GPU. Wow, it has pins and fits in a socket, it's a miracle!
- cultofmetatron 5y agopower efficiency? saving weight?
- Matthias247 5y agoAny kind of socket would require additional height. Probably at least 5mm. And you would certainly want to avoid that on mobile devices. For memory thats less of a problem, because you can plug it from the side, but CPUs have way more pins, so that won't work.
- bserge 5y agoYeah, the usual. Same reason used for everything soldered and non replaceable keyboards.
- foxfluff 5y agoProbably to shave off the cost (and volume) of a socket.