Soldered CPUs?

[Hi P]

I was reading an old post about the possible Intel's 9th gen being soldered and that such thing would improve temperatures.

 

Does it mean people can no longer delide those CPUs? or what's exactly being soldered?

 

Thanks!

[Light-Yagami]

soldered means that they're "glued" to the IHS with solder, which is metal. It's a very good thing. It's a thing AMD does. 

[Gunn]

If you had a powerful enough heat gun you maybe could maybe.

I hope they dont use a garbage solder like apple use in it devices

[porina]

You can still delid soldered CPUs but there would be no point outside of really extreme use cases. The benefit most get from delid is to reduce the gap and also improve the contact material. With it soldered out of the factory there wont be a need to do that any more.

[bowrilla]

5 minutes ago, Hi P said:

I was reading an old post about the possible Intel's 9th gen being soldered and that such thing would improve temperatures.

 

Does it mean people can no longer delide those CPUs? or what's exactly being soldered?

 

Thanks!

There's no point in delidding a soldered CPU. It's better than anything you could replace it with. People delid CPUs to replace the crappy thermal compound Intel uses. The best thing people can come up with is liquid metal which at best is equally good as solder (usually it is worse).