PGA sockets look like a checkerboard with lots of squares. They are designed to hold a CPU chip with an array of pins sticking out of its bottom. BGA and land-grid array sockets, which are usually ...

Each of the two major processor makers, AMD and Intel, has its own type of socket. For Intel, it’s land grid array (LGA) CPU sockets. Intel has continually updated its LGA socket over the years ...

Of course, this means the venerable AM4 socket will finally be superseded. The biggest physical change AM5 brings is the switch to a Land Grid Array CPU socket (LGA) with 1718 pins. AMD will say ...

They are, instead, installed within the socket itself. This allows the pins to touch the LGA pads beneath the CPU. The renders also show land grid array packaging and a single latch. As the Zen 4 ...

Each one is pressed atop a small pin that’s part of the Land Grid Array in the socket, so the CPU can get power from the motherboard and communicate with the rest of the system. The metal heat ...

CAMBRIDGE, UK — Following up on the availability of Intel's Core-i7 Mobile quad-core processors, Suyin has launched a reversed pin grid array socket (rPGA-989) suitable for automatic assembly. The ...

socket has featured so many pins. While processors from rival Intel boast a higher contact count, the company has long abandoned the PGA format in favour of a land grid array (LGA) design that ...

chips to a land grid array (LGA). This moves the CPU connection pins from the CPU area to the motherboard socket, where they're better protected from getting bent or damaged. AMD has also ...

That could all be changing with the next shift in socket for team red, however, as the latest leaks suggest a land grid array ... stuck with a pin grid array (PGA) for its CPU packaging.