Intel's BGA (ball-grid array) package processors that should replace the LGA one by the end of 2013 have been detailed in a leaked slide, alongside the previously reported EOLed CPUs. The first in line that will use the BGA package will be Celeron and Pentium CPUs.

Since these will practically integrate the CPU with the motherboard chip, the system-on-chip term is much better than CPUs considering that these motherboards with BGA SoC hard-wired to the board will not be user-replaceable, at least not without any hardcore soldering skills.

The first in line will be the desktop parts based on the BayTrail-D platform, including the Celeron J1750, Celeron J1850, and Pentium J2850. Celeron J1750. The Celeron J1750 is a dual-core chip clocked at 2.41GHz with GPU clocked at 792MHz and 10W TDP. The Celeron J1850 is a quad-core part with same GPU clocked at 792MHz but slightly lower 2.0GHz CPU clock. The top offer, Pentium J2850 is also a quad-core part clocked at 2.41GHz and the same GPU at 792MHz. Interestingly, all three parts will have the same 10W TDP.

The mainstream and performance segments will be based on Haswell-GT3 design and have a larger iGPU. These will have a highe number of EUs when compared to the GT1 and GT3 GPUs and L4 eDRAM cache. The lineup will include the Core i5-4570R, i5-4670R, and Core i7-4770R.

These BGA SoCs will be quite interesting for the mainstream market since they incorporate everything in a single package making them easy to implement for OEMs and system integrators.





Source: Techpowerup.com.