(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 ...

AMD's next-generation EPYC "Genoa" corporate CPUs, which will be available in the Socket SP5 form factor, are seen in some of their initial photos. Using the 6,080-pin SP5 package, AMD's chip ...

AMD announced the new AM5 socket alongside the Ryzen 7000 Series processors that feature Zen 4 cores. With Zen 5 and the AMD Ryzen 9000 Series, AMD is continuing to stick with the same socket, ...

The Intel Core architecture is one that has not always been a performance leader. The original Core CPUs were decent, but not that great. Starting with the Conroe based Core 2, things changed. We saw ...

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) ...

Opteron processors based on the Zen architecture are coming in 2016 (hopefully) and we expect to see them using 14nm GlobalFoundries' manufacturing process. What we can confirm is that the 32-core ...

Ready or not, the age of Nehalem is finally upon us and with it comes Intel's new Socket LGA 1366 processor interface. Socket LGA 775 has lived a long and distinguished life, longer than any other ...

Dit artikel is ook in het Nederlands beschikbaar. AMD's Opteron has remained loyal to Socket 940 since its introduction in April 2003, but all good things must come to an end some time. A new series ...