Yes, dependent on CPU...I have just put a Core2Duo from a PGA478m into a PGA479m board, and the Celeron that was in the 479 into the 478.
Both laptops run fine.
It's inserted into a Socket
So you don't break or bend the pins on the chip.
The processor socket is both a technical convention and functional component. As a convention Socket # such as 775 and 1150 regard motherboard chip type compatibility. The functional aspects of the socket serve as the electrical interface between the motherboard (and its peripherals) to the processor itself.
Microprocessor is a single chip processor.
It is called a micro-processor......a processor on a single chip
The processor is the brain of the computer
plug the chip into a socket
A co-processor is a special chip which is used for some special operations like mathematical calculations, graphics and etc in order to reduce the load of the main processor or micro processor.
system on a chip
Another name for the processor chip is the central processing unit (CPU). It is the core component of a computer system responsible for carrying out instructions to execute programs and perform calculations.
processor
it was a processor made by intel.