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To: Paul Merriwether who wrote (22048)11/19/1997 10:23:00 AM
From: Meathead  Read Replies (1) of 176387
 
LX, BX, PIIX3, all BGA's. Almost all of the main ASIC's on a motherboard are high pin count BGA's now. Slot1 is just the
slot and card edge connector. The CPU itself on the card is BGA.
So your premise is incorrect, BGA's are everywhere.

So anyway Paul, my point is not to try and prove I know more
about engineering than you or anything like that. You sound
like an experienced engineer. My point is that the challange
of designing PC motherboards is increasing in complexity at
an exponential rate. Take a look at one of Dell's workstation
boards, it's pretty amazing.

PC MB design is viewed upon as "easy" by the general engineering
public. I interview experienced guys all the time who think it's
a cake walk. They generally get their a--es kicked within a
month by an overwhelming number of factors, become humbled and
develop a new respect for the discipline.

My other point is, Dell is'nt just a low-tech screw-turnin
JIT box maker. They design all of their high end products and
only OEM some of the cheap/consumer stuff. They have a very
large Product Group organization with many engineers.

So you work for IBM huh?

MEATHEAD
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