For the past thirty years, desktop system longevity has been defined in sockets. I cut my teeth as an enthusiast on Socket 7, and I've owned examples of virtually every AMD and Intel socket standard ...
Intel’s BGA processors are definitely going to become a bigger part of Intel’s portfolio in the future and by the looks of things these BGA packages are mainly designed to transform the bottom segment ...
Rumours abound that Intel's next-next-gen CPU, the Broadwell, will be soldered to motherboards rather than socketed - and that consequently motherboards will become very difficult to swap or upgrade.