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Socket
A specific position in a customer's bill of materials that a part occupies, such as the main application processor or the buck regulator for the SoC rail. Suppliers compete socket by socket rather than product by product.
- Also known as
- Design socket, Slot
- Type
- Business
- Domain
- Business & Market, Go-to-market
Notes
Losing a socket at a platform refresh usually locks a supplier out for the whole multi-year product cycle.
Related terms
Part of the Business & Market glossary, with every term in the topic and the lifecycles, tools and standards that use them.
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Used on 37 pages of the Hub. In each group, the pages that mention it most come first.
Lifecycle stages and gates
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