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Socket S1

Socket S1

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Socket S1 is the CPU socket
CPU socket
A CPU socket or CPU slot is an electrical component that attaches to a printed circuit board and is designed to house a CPU . It is a special type of integrated circuit socket designed for very high pin counts...

 type used by AMD for their Turion 64, Athlon 64 Mobile
Athlon 64
The Athlon 64 is an eighth-generation, AMD64-architecture microprocessor produced by AMD, released on September 23, 2003. It is the third processor to bear the name Athlon, and the immediate successor to the Athlon XP...

 and later Sempron
Sempron
Sempron has been the marketing name used by AMD for several different budget desktop CPUs, using several different technologies and CPU socket formats. The Sempron replaced the AMD Duron processor and competes against Intel's Celeron series of processors...

 processors, which debuted with the dual core
Multi-core (computing)
A multi-core processor is a processing system composed of two or more independent cores. The cores are typically integrated onto a single integrated circuit die , or they may be integrated onto multiple dies in a single chip package...

 Turion 64 X2 CPUs on May 17, 2006.
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Socket S1 is the CPU socket
CPU socket
A CPU socket or CPU slot is an electrical component that attaches to a printed circuit board and is designed to house a CPU . It is a special type of integrated circuit socket designed for very high pin counts...

 type used by AMD for their Turion 64, Athlon 64 Mobile
Athlon 64
The Athlon 64 is an eighth-generation, AMD64-architecture microprocessor produced by AMD, released on September 23, 2003. It is the third processor to bear the name Athlon, and the immediate successor to the Athlon XP...

 and later Sempron
Sempron
Sempron has been the marketing name used by AMD for several different budget desktop CPUs, using several different technologies and CPU socket formats. The Sempron replaced the AMD Duron processor and competes against Intel's Celeron series of processors...

 processors, which debuted with the dual core
Multi-core (computing)
A multi-core processor is a processing system composed of two or more independent cores. The cores are typically integrated onto a single integrated circuit die , or they may be integrated onto multiple dies in a single chip package...

 Turion 64 X2 CPUs on May 17, 2006.

Technical specifications


Socket S1 is a 638 pin, low profile, ZIF
ZIF
ZIF is an acronym for zero insertion force, a concept used in the design of IC sockets, invented to avoid problems caused by applying force upon insertion and extraction....

, 1.27mm pitch socket. It replaces the existing Socket 754
Socket 754
Socket 754 is a CPU socket originally developed by AMD to succeed its Athlon XP platform . Socket 754 was the first socket developed by AMD to support their new consumer version of the 64 bit microprocessor family known as AMD64.-Technical Specifications:Socket 754 was the original socket for...

 in the mobile computing segment (e.g. laptops).

Socket S1 CPUs typically include support for dual-channel DDR2 SDRAM
DDR2 SDRAM
DDR2 SDRAM is a double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory interface. It supersedes the original DDR SDRAM specification and the two are not compatible...

, dual-core mobile CPUs, and virtualization technology, to compete with the mobile Intel Core 2
Intel Core 2
Core 2 is a brand encompassing a range of Intel's consumer 64-bit x86-64 single-, dual-, and quad-core CPUs based on the Intel Core microarchitecture. The single- and dual-core models are single-die, whereas the quad-core models comprise two dies, each containing two cores, packaged in a multi-chip...

processor series.

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