New CPU sockets and platform shifts are a necessary evil. On the one hand, depending on the type of PC user you are and how often you upgrade, it's what facilitates a larger-than-normal expenditure as ...

AMD has revamped its processor lineup from top to bottom, moving 13 CPUs to the new Socket AM2 architecture and releasing two brand-new Socket AM2 CPUs. The Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and the Athlon FX-62 are ...

According to sources cited in a report on The Inquirer, AMD’s future 45nm processors will work in current socket AM2 motherboards. Before socket AM3 hits though, socket AM2+ will be introduced later ...

These latest chipsets for AMD Socket AM2 covers the full spectrum of desktop and mobile platforms, with two new chipsets for desktop platform: SiS756 and SiS761GX; and four for mobile solution: SiS756 ...

The Digital Home experiment has been going on for quite some time now, even Intel tried this with its Pentium D line. While Digital Home is a great idea, it simply wasn't feasible with processors of ...

Ask AMD why launch Socket AM2 -- the hub of a platform shift that sees them standardise on a socket for their CPUs across their entire desktop product line -- now, and they'll largely lay it at the ...