News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on AMD 16-Core ThreadRipper Enthusiast CPUs to Reportedly Utilize 4094 Pin Socket.

Re:AMD 16-Core ThreadRipper Enthusiast CPUs to Reportedly Ut... by GlobalServices on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:52AM (#14342519)
I would have put two more pins and made it an integer power of two. And it would have looked nice on the bottom! (64 x 64)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:AMD 16-Core ThreadRipper Enthusiast CPUs to Reportedly Ut... by daxorid on Monday May 15, 2017 @12:01PM (#14342612)
They usually take a pin or two out from square-matrix pinouts to create sufficient asymmetry to prevent you from inserting the chip rotated 90 degrees.
[ Parent | on HN ]