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What was the shortest lived socket? Socket 423?

by xattt 5y ago

flatiron 5y ago
That would be my guess as well. Only a single p4 generation iirc
rsynnott 5y ago
Socket 4 or 5, probably (first two Pentium sockets). Socket 5 had a new socket replace it faster than 4 did, but new chips were made for 5 for longer.
paulmd 5y ago
Probably depends on your definition of "shortest lived". There's quite a few sockets that only got one generation. AM1 comes to mind, there were only ever about 5 processors compatible with it and really only two were ever intended for retail market and only one of them ever really existed off the drawing board. That's probably one of the rarest consumer sockets ever produced, at least recently. There have also been a few HEDT sockets that saw short life and small numbers. The W-3175X platform and AMD Quad FX (Quadfather) both were exceptionally short lived in themselves, but on paper supported a decent number of server processors due to socket compatibility. They are probably some of the smallest numbers sold. Quadfather never lived past a single board and neither of them probably sold more than a few thousand units. TR4 and TRX40 both went down as exceptionally short-lived HEDT sockets with only one generation each and no cross-compatibility with server chips that share their sockets. But they probably sold higher numbers than W-3175X and Quadfather. WRX80 is probably one of the lowest-volume sockets around since it's basically OEM only and a niche of the niche HEDT market, but again then you've got two generations, even if the volume sold is small. Most Intel products really aren't contenders here, "one generation for the socket" is table-stakes here, it's volume that really decides it imo. Nobody can really say Intel doesn't produce volume for their stuff, a short-lived socket for Intel probably sold 100x the amount that Quadfather sold. Weird niche products like W-3175X or Kaby Lake-X are the exception but again then you've got other products in the same socket.
fomine3 5y ago
Not shortest but weird one was LGA1356.

What was the shortest lived socket? Socket 423?

by xattt 5y ago

What was the shortest lived socket? Socket 423?

flatiron 5y ago

That would be my guess as well. Only a single p4 generation iirc

rsynnott 5y ago

Socket 4 or 5, probably (first two Pentium sockets). Socket 5 had a new socket replace it faster than 4 did, but new chips were made for 5 for longer.

paulmd 5y ago

Probably depends on your definition of "shortest lived". There's quite a few sockets that only got one generation. AM1 comes to mind, there were only ever about 5 processors compatible with it and really only two were ever intended for retail market and only one of them ever really existed off the drawing board. That's probably one of the rarest consumer sockets ever produced, at least recently. There have also been a few HEDT sockets that saw short life and small numbers. The W-3175X platform and AMD Quad FX (Quadfather) both were exceptionally short lived in themselves, but on paper supported a decent number of server processors due to socket compatibility. They are probably some of the smallest numbers sold. Quadfather never lived past a single board and neither of them probably sold more than a few thousand units. TR4 and TRX40 both went down as exceptionally short-lived HEDT sockets with only one generation each and no cross-compatibility with server chips that share their sockets. But they probably sold higher numbers than W-3175X and Quadfather. WRX80 is probably one of the lowest-volume sockets around since it's basically OEM only and a niche of the niche HEDT market, but again then you've got two generations, even if the volume sold is small. Most Intel products really aren't contenders here, "one generation for the socket" is table-stakes here, it's volume that really decides it imo. Nobody can really say Intel doesn't produce volume for their stuff, a short-lived socket for Intel probably sold 100x the amount that Quadfather sold. Weird niche products like W-3175X or Kaby Lake-X are the exception but again then you've got other products in the same socket.

fomine3 5y ago

Not shortest but weird one was LGA1356.