The short version is as follows. The physical changes are the most obvious ones. AM5 moves from the pin grid array (PGA) chips to a land grid array (LGA). This moves the CPU connection pins from ...

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 ...

Frenchtown, N.J. – Aries Electronics has broadened its line of pin-grid-array zero-insertion-force (ZIF) Test Sockets with a 9 x 9-grid version. The units enable just one socket to handle a full range ...

Upgrading CPUs in office computers makes a great deal of sense given that while CPU technology has advanced greatly, other components live longer lives before they become obsolete. Upgrading poses ...

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 ...

This article explains how to install a heatsink on a CPU with the pin-grid array processor design used by most manufacturers. If you're building your own PC, you need to know how to install a CPU ...

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, which have so ...