One of our sources have been telling us that the yet to be launched LGA-1156 socket from Intel might be very short lived, as its set to be replaced by a new socket that that is is called LGA-1156B which will among other things add IGP support. This is set to launch in early 2010 and will be followed by another socket called LGA-1156C at a later stage.

This is going to be a big concern for early adopters that are waiting to leave their Core 2 based system behind, but don't want to spend the kind of money that the Core i7 platform costs. Not only is the CPU socket a problem, but as we have reported, the P55 chipset might in itself not support certain future CPUs, even if Intel were to make a few SKUs that works with the original LGA-1156 platform.

We're also hearing rumours that the Braidwood Turbo Memory modules won't appear on retail P55 products, as Intel might be keeping this for the P57 and H57 chipsets, as well as some mobile chipsets. This is truly a mess and we hope Intel will clarify things, as not only will they lose customer confidence by doing this, but it will also tick off their partners that might end up with stock of motherboards that no-one will want to buy.

It's not the first time Intel have done something like this, the original Pentium 4 didn't live for long either, but by now we thought Intel had learnt its lesson, but it seems like we were wrong.