14 DAY TRIAL // At the early onset of the year (2013), rumors emerged saying that Intel would stop making central processing units that could be removed from their motherboards. Instead, it would focus on chips that were soldered to the mainboard.
Now we have confirmation that this will happen, as much as many people will want to believe otherwise. We even have a roadmap.
MyCE website is where that roadmap came out. It shows a somewhat slow transition from LGA to BGA, but a transition it will be.
Truth be told, Intel already makes many BGA chips. They are quite common in laptops after all.
What we are looking at here is the progression to LGA CPUs, or rather SoCs (system-on-chip devices), on the desktop market, and the whole PC front as a whole for that matter.
The first SoCs for the desktop market will be called Bay Trail-D. Examples are Pentium J2850, Celeron J1750 and Celeron J1850.
Celeron J1750 is a dual core, for instance, with 2.41 GHz CPU clock speed, a GPU with a frequency of 792 MHz, and a TDP of 10W.
There was a time when 10W was considered a very low wattage excellent for notebooks, yet now it is reaching the desktop segment.
More interesting, however, is that the Celeron J1850 and J2850, with their 2/2.41 GHz speeds, as well as 792 MHz GPUs, also work at 10W despite being quad-cores.
Overall, they aren't bad for a starting line, even if sales will only begin in 2014, regardless of whether or not the official release happens in 2013.
Obviously, mainstream and high-end chips are in the making as well, many based on the quad-core Haswell GT3 silicon, with a large iGPU, and a large eDRAM cache. Core i5-4570R, i5-4670R, and Core i7-4770R will spearhead the movement.
Core i7-4770R will have 6 MB L3 cache, 3.2/3.9 GHz and 2.7/3.2 GHz speeds, and a graphics clock of 1.3 GHz. The others will have 4 MB cache, and 1,150 MHz / 1.3 GHz Iris Pro graphics.
