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 ...

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 ...

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In the mid 1980s, there was a rash of 16-bit computers entering the market. One of them stood head and shoulders above the rest: Commodore’s Amiga 1000. It had everything that could reasonably be ...

I'm considering buying a server board that has two CPU sockets, but I don't want to afford both CPUs right now. Is that a problem? Can I just add in the other CPU later like adding extra memory DIMMs?

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 ...

Not much is known about AMD’s monster Threadripper chips at this point except that they’ll appear this summer with up to 16 cores. You can now add another factoid to the fire though: The socket for ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...