ASUS Says: Intel likely to figure a way to keep LGA design for CPUs

The rumor that LGA is going away made the headlines a month ago and was even the subject of the NInjalane Podcast were we talked about the leaked roadmap and how the slide may have been leaked on purpose to gauge market reaction.

Well Joe Hsieh, Asustek Computer vice president and general manager of motherboard/desktop business claims that removing LGA from the Intel lineup isn't good for business but will be good for "their" business.

Commenting on Intel's reported plans of abandoning CPU socket designs and changing to directly soldered CPUs after two years, Asustek Computer vice president and general manager of motherboard/desktop business Joe Hsieh has said that the issue will not be as bad as people think, and Intel is likely to adopt a strategy to allow the both methods to coexist.

Hsieh noted that even if Intel's ball grid array (BGA) packaging plans enter the desktop industry, the industry will continue to live on as motherboard makers will figure out how to handle and respond to the change.

The part that makes this Digitimes post interesting is that shortly after the rumors died down Intel announced that they will be supporting socketed CPUs for the foreseeable future.

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