Rich was the editorial lead for CNET's Home and Wellness sections, based in Louisville, Kentucky. Before moving to Louisville in 2013, Rich ran CNET's desktop computer review section for 10 years in ...

AMD Athlon 64 has to be one of the most diverse CPU platforms when it comes to its socket layouts. Originally starting off as a Socket 754 single channel memory design for the desktop and a Socket 940 ...

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 ...

When AMD released the Socket AM2 platform during May of this year, many expected it to be a huge hit - after all, it supported DDR2, sporting a 30% increase memory bandwidth, and introduced new ...

AMD today announced the Athlon 64 FX-62 and the Athlon 64 X2 5000+, two new dual-core processors based on AMD's new socket AM2 design. The two chips take over the top spots in the Athlon 64 FX and ...

Charles Chou, an analyst at Fubon Securities, commented that the tight supply of low-end Intel Celeron and AMD Socket AM2 Sempron CPUs became apparent in the middle of September, with the two chip ...

AMD will release its Socket AM2 processors, including single-core Sempron 64 and Athlon 64 series and dual-core Athlon 64 X2 and Athlon 64 FX lines on May 23 and according to sources, the chipmaker is ...