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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's all about your motherboard's features and build quality ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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Leaked images of a purported Intel Granite Rapids Xeon 9000 CPU socket have been put under close scrutiny. It is estimated that the socket is a massive 1.7X larger than the current gen Intel Sapphire ...