Yes. There was a slide "leaked" last year that showed a particular segment
of Intel's roadmap appearing in BGA-only format, and a lot of people took
that to mean that LGA is dead and you'll no longer be able to buy a CPU as a
discrete component--at least from Intel. This has been widely regarded as
nonsense. There will be BGA-only parts, just as with Haswell, but Intel has
no plans to discontinue LGA:
"Intel remains committed to the growing desktop enthusiast and
channel markets, and will continue to offer socketed parts in the LGA
package for the foreseeable future for our customers and the Enthusiast DIY
market," Intel spokesman Daniel Snyder told Maximum PC.
The bigger concern is that the desktop market overall (notice the qualified
segments in the quote above) is shrinking, and therefore being de-emphasized
in favor of mobile. That is far more concerning to me than the hyperbole
around Intel's BGA plans.
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bryan Seitz
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 5:37 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Greg 4930K
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 03:41:20PM -0500, Jin-Wei Tioh wrote:
> At 07:48 PM 6/26/2013, you wrote:
>
> >So if I want to go six core, and don't want to wait until some
> >undetermined time next year, ... the best choice is to wait until
> >September and go with the 4930K and Ivy bridge board?
> >
> >w
>
> Pretty much, unless you score a hex-core Westmere for cheap on
> Craigslist or some such (got a 980X for $175 on the Dallas CL a couple
> of months ago - flipped that baby to finance two Haswell builds :P )
>
> The real problem will be Broadwell - it's supposedly BGA only, so it's
> like a double-whammy from Intel given that Haswell is not all that
> impressive for a tock, and the next shot enthusiasts will supposedly
> have is Skylake.
^ Whats that mean ? Not socketed?
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Bryan G. Seitz
