[Alupis]

And so could Intel if they wanted. Instead, they seem more interested in designing yet another socket and asking everyone to upgrade all of their hardware for a moderate performance bump...

[gruez]

>Instead, they seem more interested in designing yet another socket and asking everyone to upgrade all of their hardware for a moderate performance bump...

Who's upgrading their cpus after 1-2 generations?

[Alupis]

AMD folks, because you can use the same socket for many generations of CPU's, providing a drop-in 10-minute upgrade...