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 ...

Intel's next-generation Core Ultra 200 series "Arrow Lake" CPUs will arrive with a brand new LGA-1851 socket, which will receive an optional RL-ILM configuration with improved thermal performance ...

There were a number of new products that we expected to hear about at CES, including the much-rumored Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, ...

Hold off on that expensive cooler upgrade if you can help it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. From the outside, Intel's desktop ...

We thought that Intel's latest 14th gen CPUs would be the last ones to use the Intel LGA1700 socket, but it looks as though this veteran motherboard platform is getting a new lease of life, thanks to ...

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 ...

Intel introduced new Meteor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh processors that were designed for socketed systems operating on the edge, which will see the birth of the LGA 1851 socket for Meteor Lake, ...

Upgrading your motherboard is never a painless affair. Ripping out the guts of your build and swapping them out with all-new parts is time-consuming, and it's also expensive when a new socket is ...

Gigabyte had both new AMD and Intel boards in its VIP suite, and also marked the return of its Project Stealth design. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Except Alder Lake will still be around, hidden in other chips.

Intel is clear that at some point older CPUs stop getting errata updates and stop being regression tested against. Even though it's really helpful to have a stable platform and stable socket (and to ...