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 ...

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 ...

Of course, this means the venerable AM4 socket will finally be superseded.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 ...

The pins will now instead be positioned inside the socket itself, allowing for contact with the LGA pads that are placed under the CPU. AM5 has a single latch and land grid array packaging.

many are wondering what CPU cooler options are available for it. Unlike the Ryzen AM4 which uses a pin-grid array, the new TR4 socket uses land grid array and mounts by sliding into the socket.

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 ...

AMD didn't offer much news on its desktop processors at its CES press ... we didn't already know—just that it will be a Land Grid Array (LGA) socket that puts the pins on the motherboard rather ...