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 ...

Of course, this means the venerable AM4 socket will finally be superseded.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

A land grid array/ball grid array socket has been designed for high performance ASIC applications. The new socket has pressure mount contacts on the top and bottom to prevent overstress on the socket.

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 ...

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 ...

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. This socket TR4 is the exact same size as the socket SP3 that will ...

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 ...

Ready or not, the age of Nehalem is finally upon us and with it comes Intel's new Socket LGA 1366 processor interface. Socket LGA 775 has lived a long and distinguished life, longer than any other ...

For the past eight years, Intel has used an LGA (land grid array) socket in which the actual contacts are on the motherboard with contact points on the CPU. This packaging has served the company ...