Report: Intel 'preparing' to put an end to user-replaceable CPUs

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Here ya go AMD! Here's the keys to the MASSIVE amount of market share we used to have.
 
Corporate greed is all this is. If it comes true, it will be a sad day for Home PC builders. We might as well just buy a console gaming product.
 
We shall see, I'm not sure that they can just do this legally, but if they do we're fucked.
 
hmmmmmm, if this comes true, guess i need to invest in a personal buisness if its possibles





*they are going to eventually make it to where you just need software to upgrade those things and MAKE MURDEROUS profits....either way, looks like they are trying to go for the short and curlies in the future
 
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2Tartu said:
I'm going to boycott that shit.
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See you on your slow ass amd :p

BOT#00001 said:
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Here ya go AMD! Here's the keys to the MASSIVE amount of market share we used to have.
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10-15% wont save AMD.

agriff805 said:
We shall see, I'm not sure that they can just do this legally, but if they do we're fucked.
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Its most certainly legal. Both Intel and AMD have been selling BGA systems for atleast a couple years. When was it required you could change the cpu?

Remember one its a report, 2 its a few years before it would affect 90% of you anyways. People wanted to whine they had to replace their motherboard every time they wanted to switch top end cpu's. Problem solved. Its actually win win anyways. Intel no longer has to hold back performance just to give a few whiners their chipset backwards compatability. But there has to be some down side I mean we are talking about the company that wanted to kill off PCI-E.

The whole "cut the other motherboard manufacturers out" its a scare tactic by the media. Intel not only currently partners with a major motherboard manufacturer to do their reference designs they also have them doing their "Intel" boards last i checked. Their OEM operations still count on these other manufacturers and none of their partners have the capacity. They will continue to ship chips to be soldered to boards the way HP and others have been doing laptops for years. They already know they can't do it and there will be a government inquiry into it just based on the damned news report as it is.
 
the SOLE reason i dont pay attention to current events VIA "the media" (well other than they like to talk about what celebrity is porkin who, whos pregger, whos fat and skinny, tig ole bitties...etc, etc,) is you CANT trust everythnig they say.....When my PSG/PLDR tells me whats what, THAT is current events enough for me=D!!!!!!
 
I don't really have a dislike or a like for Intel... this information just shows their chiefs want more money.
 
I doubt it will happen that quickly, if ever.

It might happen at the low end, but probably not for performance parts.

They have not denounced the story completely, but I think someone from Intel commented that they've taken "too many liberties" in interpreting that report.

Even if it happens someday, it'll suck for sure, but realistically I usually change my mobo when I change my processor anyway, so not a terribly huge loss.

The other "WTF" is the upcoming integration of an ARM CPU into Nvidia cards coming up in a couple of years. It's rumored that next year's GPU refresh will be the last without an integrated CPU... whatever that means for the gaming market.

Maybe in the future there won't be a need for a powerful on-mobo CPU anyway, and everything will run 100% on the graphics card.
 
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