Just out of curiosity:<BR><BR>Is there any kind of solder that can SAFELY be used on a CPU die, that's also got good thermal conductivity?<BR><BR>I was wondering about the feasibility of directly ...

You can't. Socket S1 is a mobile socket and you embed it in your product (likely a laptop of some design), the thermal solution is designed by you according to the needs of your product. I'm not even ...

TE Connectivity (TE), formerly Tyco Electronics, has developed a surface-mount LGA 2011 socket specifically for Intel Corp's Core i7 and Xeon 5 CPU processors. The contacts of TE's new LGA 2011 socket ...

Upgrading your CPU can be a frustrating experience, even though the physical acts of removing an old processor and installing the new one are pretty easy. The more difficult questions to answer are ...