Aries can provide the stainless steel handle on either the right or left side. The ZIF socket plugs into standard pin-grid-array (PGA) sockets, and has replaceable pins. The PGA ZIF socket is made of ...

A Ball Grid Array is descended from the pin grid array (PGA): a historic VLSI through-hole packaging technology, featuring a regular array of metal pins underneath the package on a not very ...

The first image of AMD's upcoming Socket AM4, the new single platform for its Bristol Ridge and Zen CPU and APU products, has been leaked, revealing a pin-grid array (PGA) design with 1,331 pin ...

With the next-gen socket AM5, AMD is departing from pin grid array (PGA) and moving to land grid array (LGA) on its mainstream chips. However, the move to a new socket with different orientation ...

What this basically means is that there will be absolutely no upgrade path for people on the current-gen AM4 platforms, which use PGA or pin grid array. Those folks will be stuck with Ryzen 5000 ...

When AMD’s Zen 4 processors arrive sometime next year, they’re expected to use a new AM5 socket, replacing the AM4 socket used on the company’s current best gaming CPU. This means the ...

"The Flip Chip Pin Grid Array (FC-PGA) package is used on Pentium III processors, while Plastic Pin Grid Array (PPGA) packaging is used in Celerons," begins McMillan. He points out that this does ...