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 ...

AMD has long stuck with a pin grid array (PGA) for its CPU packaging. You could go all the way back to the original Athlon processors and find a chip package not all that different from today's 16 ...

CPU sockets come in two major types -- ball-grid array and pin-grid array. PGA sockets look like a checkerboard with lots of squares. They are designed to hold a CPU chip with an array of pins ...

The ZIF socket plugs into standard pin-grid-array (PGA) sockets, and has replaceable pins. The PGA ZIF socket is made of UL94V-0 polyphenylene sulfide. Its contacts are either beryllium copper alloy ...

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.

And now we learn that the Socket AM5, like Intel's, will be moving to Land Grid Array (or LGA) from the current Pin Grid Array (or PGA) packaging. This essentially means that pins, ...

This article explains how to install a heatsink on a CPU with the pin-grid array processor design used by most manufacturers. How to Install a CPU and Heatsink.

Socket 370 accepts a 370-pin PPGA (plastic pin grid array) chip package. Socket 370 chips and motherboards cost less to manufacture than the more elaborate Single Edge Cartridge (SEC) and Slot 1 ...