Intel Haswell-E enthusiast chip to carry eight cores and support DDR4

[Jad Chaar]

Another socket, another md. Guess I'm stuck with the 3930 for a while. Could be worse.

It is just a new chipset I think.

 

[MrBungle]

DDR4 is electrically different than DDR3 with the memory controller being on chip they need a new socket.

 

[Scodd]

"Naturally, of course, there?s also a new socket in play ? LGA 2011-3."

 

[Jad Chaar]

DDR4 is electrically different than DDR3 with the memory controller being on chip they need a new socket.

Why does the memory controller need to be on chip?