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Intel is moving towards soldered CPUs due to the issues with signal integrity and pin counts. I'm sure they would prefer for people to have the ability to upgra
by deelowe 13y ago
Intel is moving towards soldered CPUs due to the issues with signal integrity and pin counts. I'm sure they would prefer for people to have the ability to upgrade CPUs.
This shouldn't come as a surprise to those of us who witnessed the previous fiasco with moving the pins off the chip and onto the motherboard. This was also spun as some evil Intel conspiracy, but was due to the same reasons. It is becoming an industry wide issue, because of the exact same reasons. Density can only go up so much until you start having to remove traces and integrate components.
Then again, these were the exact same complaints that circled when ICs came out.
- makomk 13y agoNot really. Remember that Intel makes money from motherboard chipsets too. Recently, they've even been releasing microcode updates that retroactively disable CPU features that users have paid for unless they're using a more expensive chipset that officially supports them. There's no technical reason for it (and the chipsets are basically identical but with different features fused off for market segmentation reasons anyway).
- deelowe 13y agoActually, yes really. I work in the industry. This move is due to issues with SI, thermal, and chip pin counts.