Intel's next gen CPUs are coming to gaming PCs soon, and we've just been given our first glimpse of the socket that will be used by the chips and their supporting motherboards. The new lineup of Intel ...

However, when counting the pins, you will realize that the 2011, 2011-1 and 2011-3 actually have different pin counts. As far as I understand, all these sockets fit physically with the CPUs, i.e. you ...

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 ...

Intel released a "reduced load" variant of the ILM with Arrow Lake that mostly resolved the problem, but it was optional. It looks like Intel is releasing another variant of the ILM with Nova Lake, ...