One of the best things about building with AMD hardware in the last few years has been the longevity of the AM4 processor socket, which was the standard for Ryzen CPUs for five years. AMD is hoping to ...
It’s not an ideal time to be buying a new PC or doing a major upgrade. Price crunches for RAM and storage chips are making ...
Despite the arrival of Socket AM5, AMD's legendary Socket AM4 platform continues. Partly that's due to the longevity of support. But it's also because of ...
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 ...
AMD has formally introduced the EPYC 8005 processor series, codenamed “Sorano,” expanding its Zen 5 server portfolio with a lineup focused on power-efficient single-socket deployments. The processors ...
The six-core 3960X is built around the LGA 2011 (a.k.a. Socket R), a new processor socket that's meant to replace the venerable LGA 1366 (Socket B). With 645 more pins, Socket R allows processors to ...
AMD says this is ‘the world’s most powerful desktop consumer processor.’ AMD says this is ‘the world’s most powerful desktop consumer processor.’ is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who ...
Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...