Neowin News Feed for: Socket

AMD brings its low-power Bristol Ridge processors to desktops, alongside AM4 socket

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 14:12:01 +0000

AMD has announced the availability of its new Bristol Ridge processors for desktops. The new chips offer better graphics and support for Ultra HD media, and run on the AM4 socket. Read more...

AMD not abandoning socketed CPUs

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:36:43 +0000

After a rumor that Intel might abandon the socketed CPU, AMD has now publicly stated is will continue to offer such products for years to come, alleviating the worries of the enthusiast community Read more...

AMD: 45nm, DDR3 and Socket AM3 in 2008

Wed, 02 May 2007 15:09:57 +0000

This summer, AMD will announce K10, its first major architecture change since the introduction of the K8 architecture in 2003. This new architecture will first make an appearance with the introduction of the Barcelona-family... Read more...

AMD's AM 3 socket will support DDR3

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:23:53 +0000

AMD'S AM2 socket will "evolve" to AM2+ in Q3 2007. The AM2+ will include support for the latest greatest Hypertransport 3, scoring with 4.0 to 4.4 GT/s where the exact speed depends on the north... Read more...

AMD chip socket makes room for others

Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:26:31 +0000

AMD will let computer makers pop specialized coprocessors into sockets that otherwise would house an AMD primary processor such as Opteron or Athlon. It's an expansion of the Torrenza initiative which provides a way for... Read more...

AMD's Socket AM2 to support Socket AM3 CPUs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:12:26 +0000

AMD has released details of its next-generation desktop CPU interface, Socket AM3, to its OEM partners. In a mildly surprising move, AMD has revealed that AM2 will accept AM2 or AM3 CPU packages. ... Read more...

AMD: New Socket For Two Dual-Core Processors

Steven Parker — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:40:47 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices is going to fire back at Intel today in the enthusiast PC market. The Sunnyvale company will unveil a new socket for high-end computers today that will allow it to put two... Read more...

AMD Announces Availability of Socket AM2 CPUs

Tue, 23 May 2006 16:23:32 +0000

AMD today announced the immediate availability of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 dual-core processor and the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+dual-core processor compatible with AMD's new Socket AM2 platform. Socket AM2 from AMD is designed... Read more...

Socket AM2 let down by DDR2

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:03:53 +0000

DDR 2 MEMORY currently works at faster clocks than DDR1, but it still has some latency hang-ups. 800MHz DDR 2 may work at CL4 ms, but faster implementations of DDR1 can work at CL 2ms... Read more...

AMD Socket AM2 Will Launch June 6th

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:38:42 +0000

AMD's new CPU socket, AM2, will launch at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan this June. The first AM2 motherboards will be on display at the European CeBIT show this March. ... Read more...

Socket AM2- M2 motherboards to cost $5 to $10 more

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:30:38 +0000

THE AMD socket M2/AM2 based motherboards aren't likely to cost very much more than existing sockets. AMD advised its motherboard partners that the new motherboards will cost them only a little bit more. Socket vendors... Read more...

AMD Denies Phase Out of Opteron Chips for Socket 939

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:18:50 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices denied on Tuesday rumours spread by a web-site regarding cancellation of production of AMD Opteron processors for servers and workstation designed for desktop-oriented 939-pin infrastructure. The company said it would continue to... Read more...

AMD Socket M2 Delayed Until Q2 2006

Sat, 05 Nov 2005 21:27:45 +0000

AMD's 940-pin, DDR2 enabled Socket M2 processors will appear slightly later than first expected according to new roadmaps. While availability was previous expected by March of next year, it now appears that actual availability... Read more...

Intel Preps New "Extreme Edition" Chips for Socket 478/775

Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:06:57 +0000

In an attempt to strengthen product lineup Intel Corporation has included a number of new chips into its plans. The new microprocessors to be introduced later this year will sharply modify the family of Intel's... Read more...

Nvidia confirms Socket 939 Semprons in pipeline

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:39:33 +0000

Nvidia has revealed that AMD plans to release Socket 939 Sempron processors. AMD formally launched its Sempron budget processor line earlier today, listing desktop and mobile, and Socket A and Socket 754 CPUs among the... Read more...

Shuttle shows Socket T SFF PCs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 07:20:12 +0000

Taiwanese small form-factor barebones PC specialist Shuttle this week said it was adding Intel's new i915G chipset - one of the 'Grantsdale' family - to its XPC desktop line-up. Two machines are getting the new... Read more...

Advanced Micro Devices May Push the Release of New Socket

Mon, 03 May 2004 17:17:44 +0000

Thanks xStainDx Some unofficial sources report that Advanced Micro Devices may push the release of its processors in new packaging with dual-channel memory controller yet another time. But the delay will be... Read more...

Intel Limits Socket 478 Processors' Evolution to 3.40GHz

Sat, 24 Jan 2004 06:34:36 +0000

While originally Intel planned to offer 3.60GHz processors for PGA478 platforms, some sources now report about absence of such chips in the firm's plans. The last and final play for Socket 478 will be 3.40GHz... Read more...

Intel's LGA 775 to displace socket 478 fast

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:58:55 +0000

ALTHOUGH INTEL will only have a small proportion of Socket T LGA 775 chips available when it launches in the second quarter, by the end of this year those chips will account for 40% of... Read more...

Site gives date for Socket 939, Athlon 64 FX 53

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 10:18:52 +0000

FRENCH SITE X86-Secret said that AMD will start its move to Socket 939 on the 29th March. According to the site, on that date AMD will roll out not only the Athlon 64 FX 53,... Read more...

Via pushes Socket 370 to support 200MHz bus

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 18 Apr 2003 17:28:23 +0000

LET US NOT forget that as well as producing chipsets that take AMD and Intel microprocessors, Via also produces a family of CPUs of its own. And the firm appears to have made something of... Read more...