The German export association BGA has warned of a "massive credit squeeze" by late summer while Business Europe, the region's main business lobby, told the European Central Bank that bank lending desperately needs to be improved.

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They claim that desktop processors built on Intel's future, 14-nanometer Broadwell architecture will be switching from contacts based on a land grid array (LGA) to a ball grid array (BGA) that could dictate soldering the chips in laptop-style, rather than putting them in an upgrade-friendly socket.

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