OMRON Electronic Components Europe has released P6K surface-mount sockets, designed for G6K through-hole PCB relays. The sockets enable relay insertion during board assembly and removal for servicing ...

Home electrical sockets pose serious risks like shocks and fires due to common oversights. Counterfeit chargers, frayed wires, wet appliances, overloaded sockets, broken covers, and foreign objects ...

Two kinds of patients can keep you up at night: ones who sneezed too hard and got a screw pullout—and those who come back at 3 months with a broken upper instrumented vertebra. Sound familiar? Adult ...

TL;DR: AMD's next-generation Zen 7 processors will support the current AM5 socket, offering up to 32 cores and 64 threads. This extends AM5's longevity through 2028, enabling upgrades from Zen 3, 4, 5 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More pins equals more performance, right? If so, get ready for AMD's next-gen AM6 CPU socket. According to a new AMD patent filing (via Bits and Chips), it'll have about 2,100 of the pointy little ...