In a new interview with AMD's Vice President & GM of the Client Channel Business David McAfee and OverclockersUK, we learned that AMD is totally committed to the AM5 desktop CPU platform. The current ...

Intel's first socketed microprocessors came in a dual in-line package (DIP) with 40 connectors. The i486 used a variety of sockets, but the most popular had 237 contacts. AMD's "Socket A" for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

We've been reporting on toasted AMD AM5 CPU sockets for a while now. Back in April, a Reddit thread catalogued over 100 dead CPUs. AMD then told us, "Following a joint investigation, AMD and ASRock ...

Intel and AMD have been embroiled in a long-running battle over which company offers the best CPUs. That can be a nuanced discussion depending on the metrics used in the comparison. Still, there's one ...

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 ...

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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 ...

It's hard to remember now, but the original AMD Ryzen processors topped out at "just" 8 cores. The Ryzen 3000 family came along in 2019 with the Ryzen 9 branding and the first sixteen-core desktop ...