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 ...

AMD is reportedly ready to finally move to a new gaming CPU socket in the next few years, with the first unconfirmed details about its future AM6 socket starting to leak out. The new AM6 design will ...

TL;DR: AMD's next-generation Zen 7 processors will support the current AM5 socket, offering up to 32 cores and 64 threads. This extends AM5's longevity through 2028, enabling upgrades from Zen 3, 4, 5 ...

Rumor mill: AMD's next-gen AM6 CPU socket will reportedly have 2,100 pins, a 22-percent increase over the 1,718 pins in AM5. However, despite the increased pin count, the two sockets are said to be ...

The LGA 1156 and 1366 surface-mount hybrid sockets combine the benefits of both an LGA socket and BGA component, and are compliant with the Intel Core i7 processor family. The sockets’ cantilever beam ...

AMD's next-generation AM6 socket may have up to 2,100 pins, compared to just 1,718 on the existing AM5 socket. This is an uncredited rumor, so it's worth considering with a speculative eye, but the ...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock was up on Tuesday after company executives addressed issues with AM5 CPU socket failures. AMD executives David McAfee and Travis Kirsch said that CPU socket failures ...

AMD's aging AM4 platform is set to receive a couple of new updates, including the Ryzen 5 5600XT and Ryzen 5 5600T CPUs. The AMD AM4 platform is over seven years old, and AMD has not only kept a ...

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, ...