TL;DR: AMD's next-generation AM6 socket will support Zen 7 processors with 2100 pins, a 22% increase in pin density over AM5, while maintaining the same size. This enables higher power delivery ...

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, ...

Rumor mill: AMD's next-gen AM6 CPU socket will reportedly have 2,100 pins, a 22-percent increase over the 1,718 pins in AM5. However, despite the increased pin count, the two sockets are said to be ...

AMD's next-generation AM6 socket may have up to 2,100 pins, compared to just 1,718 on the existing AM5 socket. This is an uncredited rumor, so it's worth considering with a speculative eye, but the ...

AMD has always had three families of CPUs with different sockets: Epyc for servers, Threadripper for workstation/HEDT, and Ryzen for consumer. Now, it appears the company might be attempting something ...

We've been reporting on toasted AMD AM5 CPU sockets for a while now. Back in April, a Reddit thread catalogued over 100 dead CPUs. AMD then told us, "Following a joint investigation, AMD and ASRock ...

The PC scene is really heating up. With Arm-based processors from Qualcomm and Apple offering stark competition against the conventional x86-64 world, and with AI being such a focus of so many players ...