Upgrading CPUs in office computers makes a great deal of sense given that while CPU technology has advanced greatly, other components live longer lives before they become obsolete. Upgrading poses a ...

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AMD said Thursday that it will continue to use its AM4 processor socket straight through its next generation of Zen 3 processors, fulfilling the pledge it made to continue the socket through 2020. AMD ...

AMD's Torrenza Innovation Socket initiative describes in detail a two-socket motherboard that will have an AMD chip in one socket and another processor in the other socket. By publishing the ...

Many products are designed with today's high-performance ICs. Without sockets, the design, testing, and/or production phases of new product development would be chaotic, but as devices are designed ...

Hardware leaker Jaykihn on X (Twitter) claims that Intel's LGA1851 socket for Arrow Lake processors will support two independent loading mechanisms (ILMs): a default one similar to LGA1700 and a ...

We are still chewing through some of the announcements that came out of Intel Investor Day and the ISSCC 2022 chip conference, and one of the things we want to circle back on is the “Falcon Shores” ...

The SG-BGA-6099 chip socket enables 1.0-mm-pitch ICs to be used in-socket without compromising performance. Featuring a 6.5-GHz bandwidth, the socket accommodates IC packages in 29 x 29-array ...

Upgrading your CPU can be a frustrating experience, even though the physical acts of removing an old processor and installing the new one are pretty easy. The more difficult questions to answer are ...

How do you install a CPU? While your graphics card is undoubtedly the main driver when it comes to gaming, it's also essential to upgrade your CPU now and then. With higher clock speeds, as well as ...

Advanced Micro Devices will let computer makers pop specialized coprocessors into sockets that otherwise would house an AMD primary processor such as Opteron or Athlon. It's an expansion of the ...