lolfail9001
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Just like you, i can only speculate on known facts. But if you are willing... here is my guess:OK, I would like to know the reason if you know one?
Considering how badly assembly is done with TIM and even with solder in some situations on Haswell/Broadwell, i tend to think that Intel realized that every messed up (or degraded in use) solder is a lost CPU, a very expensive sale to lose, so they've just abandoned solder altogether, bottom to top, since ultimately mediocre/bad TIM application will still produce a usable CPU and with Intel's choice of compound, a usable CPU that will last a fair amount of time past it's warranty. mediocre/bad soldering will just produce either a dead die, or swift crack of it in 24/7 usage (especially with energy management and HT producing temp gradients all over the die).