There is a LGA socket coming in the later half of the year.
The parts shipping right now and that will be available June/July 2015 are only BGA. October/Novemeber 2015 for LGA versions of Carrizo/Carrizo-L/Carrizo-E.
Source? Never heard anything like this before, and I've been looking for info.
AMD has no 2015 desktop roadmap, yet here we are.
Why are shareholders, etc letting them get away with this? It seems insane to me.
This is the latest info I have found (from here at AT):
AMD’s Carrizo not on the Desktop? Depends What You Define as Desktop
by Ian Cutress on January 13, 2015 5:20 AM EST
The Tech Report mentions a single line to the claim: ‘AMD has no plans to offer Carrizo as a socketed chip for desktop PCs’. We reached out to AMD for some form of confirmation or explanation as to this line, because it felt kind of odd. With a well-positioned launch, with enough SKUs in enough markets to cater up and down the price range, AMD could re-launch the APU line with the latest architecture updates for the better. We received the following response from AMD’s James Prior:
“With regards to your specific question, we expect Carrizo will be seen in BGA form factor desktops designs from our OEM partners. The Carrizo project was focused on thermally constrained form factors, which is where you'll see the big differences in performance and other experiences that consumers value.”
There’s no direct denial of socketed Carrizo based parts here, but all arrows point to BGA desktops, such as all-in-ones and mini-PCs (the high-end segment for Broadwell-U). We have seen at least one socketed part, when AMD launched its Carrizo video:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8871/...he-desktop-depends-what-you-define-as-desktop