Astronomer Posted November 28, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted November 28, 2012 (edited) Saw this on slashdot.org. As someone who loves building their own gaming rigs and upgrading processors periodically, this is terrible news if true. Link to the referring article is embedded in the quote: "According to a story by Charlie Demerjian, a long-time hardware journalist, Intel's next generation of x86 CPUs, Broadwell, will not come in a package having pins. Hence manufacturers will have to solder it onto motherboards. That will likely seriously wound the enthusiast PC market. If Intel doesn't change their plans, the future pasture for enthusiasts looks like it will go to ARM chips or something from offshore manufacturers." Edited November 28, 2012 by Astronomer Awards
Bogleg Posted November 28, 2012 Member ID: 907 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 96 Topic Count: 126 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2731 Content Per Day: 0.49 Reputation: 3928 Achievement Points: 26177 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 02/10/1969 Device: Windows Posted November 28, 2012 Well, maybe us hobbyists will have to dust off our soldering irons. baldie, simplemod, Mule and 1 other 4 Awards
little_old_man Posted November 28, 2012 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.21 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Posted November 28, 2012 (edited) Well, maybe us hobbyists will have to dust off our soldering irons. Or simply start using the old prom sockets with the little locking arm. Remember those? I'm sure they either have or can develop them for processor chips. I was using socketed proms before there were PC's back in the early 1980's, although there was a shitload of soldering back then too. I still have my old solder sucker, bread board and jumper wires. Edited November 28, 2012 by little_old_man simplemod and Bogleg 2 Awards
TheCheeseyCrusader Posted November 28, 2012 Member ID: 88 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 249 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3513 Content Per Day: 0.61 Reputation: 1893 Achievement Points: 23131 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 15 hours ago Birthday: 11/13/1991 Device: Android Posted November 28, 2012 im off to play my gameboy baldie, simplemod and Bogleg 3 Awards
Tball Posted November 28, 2012 Member ID: 112 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 104 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1132 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 228 Achievement Points: 6975 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 3, 2015 Birthday: 10/09/1960 Posted November 28, 2012 Time for AMD to rise to the top
Hunter1948 Posted November 28, 2012 Member ID: 1850 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 98 Topic Count: 328 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8620 Content Per Day: 1.61 Reputation: 4222 Achievement Points: 55994 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 06/19/1948 Posted November 28, 2012 Time for AMD to rise to the top +1 baldie 1 Awards
Sammy Posted November 28, 2012 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.92 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted November 28, 2012 Time for AMD to rise to the top One of the things that has been discussed is integrating advanced vcard chips directly onto the cpu. Which could certainly be much more efficient but also decrease sales for nvidia etc. Game companies might like the idea since it would tighten up how many different cards are out there and also how fast improvements are made. Much better for development costs. Like consoles. Awards
7Toes Posted November 28, 2012 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 58 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27251 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Posted November 28, 2012 yes amd will go number one if intel goes the other route if this is true time to buy some amd stock lol simplemod and Evil-Monkey 2 Awards
n00ne Posted November 28, 2012 Member ID: 747 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 9 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 194 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 87 Achievement Points: 1197 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/15/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 15 Birthday: 05/24/1946 Device: Windows Posted November 28, 2012 there is an article in Extreme Tech about this..http://www.extremetech.com/ Awards
JohnnyQuest Posted November 28, 2012 Member ID: 1965 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1176 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 1082 Achievement Points: 8599 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 15, 2016 Birthday: 02/11/1969 Posted November 28, 2012 saw something a while back about graphine..the newest in processing...they compared it to water running over ice...now thats fast...instead of placing a bunch of chips on one core they plan to go up like hairs...so if it's true they could have 5000 core processors....Graphine i think its spelled...pencil lead basically Evil-Monkey 1
Evil-Monkey Posted November 28, 2012 Member ID: 221 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 11 Topic Count: 85 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1865 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 751 Achievement Points: 12313 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 06/10/1967 Device: iPhone Posted November 28, 2012 well that suxs. Awards
JohnnyQuest Posted November 29, 2012 Member ID: 1965 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1176 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 1082 Achievement Points: 8599 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 15, 2016 Birthday: 02/11/1969 Posted November 29, 2012 i guess this explains graphene... http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/graphene-the-ultimate-switch/0
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