Multi socket servers have been around since the dawn of enterprise computing. The market and technology has matured into 2-socket x86 and multi core highly integrated processors. In this piece, I hope ...

(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 ...

I'm considering buying a server board that has two CPU sockets, but I don't want to afford both CPUs right now. Is that a problem? Can I just add in the other CPU later like adding extra memory DIMMs?

AMD is hosting its “Next Horizon” datacenter event in San Francisco this week, and archrival Intel, which is losing some market share to AMD but not feeling the pain on its books yet thanks to a ...

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, ...