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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Four days ago, we reported on a leak revealing quite a few key details about Intel's upcoming ultra-high-end server platform for Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest-family Xeon processors. Well, today, ...

AMD is writing the book on socket longevity and it's doing it with AM4, which is approaching a decade of service. Just when you thought we'd seen the last hurrah for the aging platform when AMD ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Ryzen and Navi were the stars of AMD's E3, but spare a thought for the AM4 socket -- and the significant amount of work AMD has done to keep it current without compromising its promise on backward ...

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?