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 ...

Or at least the clumsy among us have (myself included). It's just all too easy with a pin grid array (PGA) design. That could all be changing with the next shift in socket for team red ...

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 ...

Thermal interface materials (TIMs) have been widely adopted for improved thermal dissipation in flip chip ball grid array (FCBGA), flip chip lidded ball grid array (FCLGA) and flip chip pin grid array ...

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 ...

AMD is also switching from a pin grid array (PGA) socket to a land grid array (LGA) 1718. This could potentially make the installation process easier and more familiar to Intel users, since Intel ...

It is an interesting shift because it will be the first Zen product to move away from a pin grid array (PGA) package to a land grid array (LGA) socket. That means no more fiddling with bent pins ...

The global Ball Grid ... array packages in the automotive and industrial sectors is likely to offer remunerative opportunities to the market. It is used in the automotive sector for high-pin ...