Supporting Intel Core i7 989/988 mobile processors and validated to Intel design guides, the company’s surface mount rPGA sockets ensure proper alignment of the processor to the socket and contacts ...

Three of the company’s sockets now meet the stringent criteria for Intel validation. The sockets include the LGA 1366 server CPU socket, LGA 1156 desktop CPU socket, and the rPGA 989/988 notebook PC ...

Intel's next gen CPUs are coming to gaming PCs soon, and we've just been given our first glimpse of the socket that will be used by the chips and their supporting motherboards. The new lineup of Intel ...

AMD has just dropped yet another Socket AM4 CPU, breathing yet more life into the aging platform. The new AMD Ryzen 5 5600F has just been launched nine years after AMD first introduced Socket AM4 in ...

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Something to look forward to: Intel has long faced criticism for frequently changing CPU sockets, making desktop upgrades more expensive and complicated. That trend could be about to change, however, ...

AMD is still on track to launch its next-generation Ryzen 7000 processors this fall, which means there are engineering samples out in the wild. It seems an overclocker has taken one of those ES chips ...