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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ASRock's X670E Taichi jams in about everything you'd want from an AMD AM5 motherboard for years to come. Just be sure that this big E-ATX board fits in your case—and your budget.

Chips listed as PGA (“Pin Grid Array”) do have pins, and drop into a socket with holes. In home PCs, modern Intel CPUs are LGA, while modern AMD CPUs are PGA. Speaking of bent pins, we have ...

The global Ball Grid Array (BGA) packaging market is projected to grow significantly in the coming decade, with a forecasted market size of USD 1.29 billion in 2024. The market is expected to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The need for more input/output (I/O) connections was a big driver in package evolution. Think about it: a chip with a million ...