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Initial Intel 'Nehalem' CPUs as cheap as chips

pctechxp

bye bye LGA775 

Posted Monday 14th July 2008 12:46 GMT

Unhappy

Bang goes my idea of sticking one of these in my nforce 650i based board.

E

@pctechxp 

Posted Monday 14th July 2008 13:41 GMT

Well, yes. Did you think all those pins for memory would fit in 775?

Mage

1336 pins! 

Posted Monday 14th July 2008 17:08 GMT

Flame

Didn't they ever read Ivor Catt?

How about 3 pins per bus, data in, out and clock?

Easy to make the buss tracks all the same length and 400GHz data clock is possible (= 80GBytes / second duplex)

Three pins for 64 bit PCI @ 66MHz is only 4.224GHz clock

MUCH cheaper packages and motherboards.

No reason not to have serial DDR3. It (serial interconnect) was done with PATA/IDE/ATAPI and Wide SCSI.

Admittedly you might need teflon PCB, but two layers (signal/power on top, ground plane on bottom) would do.