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AMD's next-gen AM6 socket expected to deliver 22% pin increase count, retain AM5 sizing

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. AMD's next-generation AM6 socket will house next-generation Zen 7 processors, and it'll feature 2100 pins with a higher pin density than the AM5 socket, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Enhancing Test Socket Performance Through Application-Specific Validation And System-Level Per-Pin OQC

As semiconductor devices continue to advance, the demand for reliable, high-performance test sockets has never been greater. Yet, traditional socket design validation methods—such as per-pin ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Comparison Of State-Of-The-Art Models For Socket Pin Defect Detection

This article is adapted from a presentation at TestConX, March 5-8, 2023, Mesa, AZ, by Vijayakumar Thangamariappan, Nidhi Agrawal, Jason Kim, Constantinos Xanthopoulos, Ira Leventhal, and Ken Butler, ...
PCGamesN

A new AMD Ryzen CPU socket is reportedly coming, first details just leaked

AMD is reportedly ready to finally move to a new gaming CPU socket in the next few years, with the first unconfirmed details about its future AM6 socket starting to leak out. The new AM6 design will ...