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Noctua Lets Intel’s Skylake-X ‘Basin Falls’ X299 Socket Slip, LGA 2066 Inbound

Noctua’s latest announcement is the first official recognition of the rumored LGA2066 socket for the forthcoming X299 Basin Falls platform, which marks a departure for Intel’s HEDT platform. In the past, HEDT processors shared the same socket as the E5 Xeon server family, such as the 2011-3 socket with Broadwell-E. Last year, we discovered the massive LGA 3647 socket that Intel is deploying for Purley (aka Xeon Skylake-EP).

SK Hynix posts record high earnings in Q1 on chip price hikes

South Korea’s memory chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. posted all-time high quarterly earnings in the first quarter ended March this year, benefiting from the so-called super cycle in semiconductors when prices jump on both tight supply and strong demand to suggest a lengthy boon.