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And 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 ago
  Of course they have! Take a look at ARM. Or Apple's M1 chip. It's crazy what mobile CPUs can do nowadays.
  • bserge 5y ago
    And look at a Ryzen with an integrated GPU. Wow, it has pins and fits in a socket, it's a miracle!
• cultofmetatron 5y ago
  power efficiency? saving weight?
  • bserge 5y ago
    Very low and zero value to me.
    • dageshi 5y ago
      Then you can certainly carry your desktop around with you? Since these things are negligible.
      • bserge 5y ago
        Yeah that's my plan for the future.
• Matthias247 5y ago
  Any 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 ago
    Yeah, the usual. Same reason used for everything soldered and non replaceable keyboards.
• foxfluff 5y ago
  Probably to shave off the cost (and volume) of a socket.