Is this actually confirmed??

[Prime12]

From the article 'Market Survey, Part 2:
Six Premium Pentium 4 LGA775 Boards, '

The changed pinout of the LGA Socket 775, however, does not apply only to Smithfield. The Prescott successor Cedar Mill (65 nm process, single core) and Smithfield successor Presler (65 nm, dual-core, 2x2 MB L2 cache) will also use the new pinout, and so will require the 945 or 955 chipsets.



I know the dual cores won't work with 925x/915, but is it confirmed that future single core ones (cedar mill) would also not run on 925/915? so existing Socket T users will be stuck with current processors and wouldn't be able to run any future processors?

 

[endyen]

AFAIK yes. This is SOP for Intel.

 

[Prime12]

But why? I can understand dual core requiring a new chipset due to change in architecture and thermal dissipation, but why even a single core processor? Cedar mill is going to have LOWER power needs than current prescotts, and I frankly don't understand why it wouldn't work.

 

[Rugger]

Although AMD tries to minimize the requirement to change chipsets/boards often, Intel does not. I would think a primary reason is that Intel makes/sells the most popular chipsets for their CPUs and make smoney when the chipsets change...

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[Rugger]

Another possible reason is that Intel may not have looked far enough down the road and designed future compatibility into their chips.

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[endyen]

Amd fanboys just dont understand.
Intel will make a new socket setup to fit all new chips.
I dont understand why, it's just Intel's way.