CPU/Mobo AMD Heading Towards Land-Grid Array Sockets

[Rahul]

Advanced Micro Devices’ next-generation server AMD Opteron processors with enhanced set of features may use land-grid array (LGA) packaging and sockets, according to pictures published by a web-site. While the LGA packaging provides numerous benefits to AMD, mainboards with such a socket will cost more to be made.
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[Aditya]

So same thing like LGA 775 of Intel's. Just more pins.

Hmm? Still flaming at Intel any1?

 

[Eazy]

I remember when Intel first announced LGA everybody and their grandmom where going on about the likely chances of damaging the pins on the Intel based mother boards and having to throw away boards just because of broken pins. Has anyone actually seen/heard of this happening ?

 

[Yamaraj]

So far, only the Socket F (1207 pins?) seems to have the LGA design.

 

[Shripad]

yep. The mainstream S1 and M2 will be conventional socket. And Socket F is a socket where little price difference does not matter