(Props to Ciconia, in another thread. I thought it deserved its own one.) I've always thought that it didn't matter to a ESXi VMs performance whether you assigned, say, one socket with two cores or ...

Windows Server 2016, not likely to arrive until the second half of next year, is going to shake up the way Microsoft licenses its server operating system, moving away from per socket licensing to per ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Jan. 28, 2010 — Tyco Electronics launches new surface mount rPGA sockets designed to support Intel® Core™ i7 989 and 988 mobile processors and validated to Intel design guides for ...

surface mount rPGA sockets ensure proper alignment of the processor to the socket and contacts are arranged on a symmetrical grid of 1 mm x 1 mm spacing Supporting Intel Core i7 989/988 mobile ...

Enabling a robust on-chip debug capability is being recognized as animportant Design for Debug (DFD) capability for complex SoC and having DFDstandardization makes the Open Core Protocol (OCP) ...

A new leak suggests Intel Comet Lake will pack up to 10 cores and a 125W TDP in a new LGA1200 socket. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit ...

The new Intel 14th Gen Core "Meteor Lake" CPUs will reportedly have a new LGA 2551 socket, measuring in at 38mm x 46mm with the new socket being "only slightly bigger in actual footprint compared to ...

Rumor mill: Intel hasn't confirmed much regarding its upcoming 15th-generation processors, but leaks and rumors over the last few weeks offer a tantalizing picture of significant performance gains.

Just five years ago, debating the merits of a 6-core CPU versus an 8-core model wasn’t possible. We were all stuck with 4-core chips at a consumer level—to break past that barrier, you had to pay ...

The new CPU will rock up to 96 cores in its first form, with up to 12 CCDs on a single package -- AMD will have support for a huge 12-channel DDR5 memory that will support up to 12TB of DDR5 in total.