CPU, APU & Chipsets. AMD's next-gen AM4 socket spotted, features 1331 pins. ... (Pin Grid Array) design which looks to have 1331 pins - just 6 short of that awesome 1337 number, ...

It's just all too easy with a pin grid array (PGA) design. That could all be changing ... They also note that a coming generation of AMD chip will support DDR5 and PCIe 4.0 with a 600-series chipset.

On its previous sockets, AMD has used a Pin Grid Array (PGA) layout, where the pins are on the CPU rather than the motherboard. Intel has stuck with a Land Grid Array (LGA) design in previous ...

With socket AM5, AMD is switching from a PGA (pin grid array) socket to an LGA (land grid array) socket. LGA sockets support more pins, and AM5 comes with 1,718 of them.

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 ...

To understand what X670E can deliver we have to first look at the AM5 socket. This is an entirely new design for AMD and one that will see the company ditch its pin-grid array (PGA) chips in ...

Bye-bye pins According to a tweet from Executable Fix, a well-known leaker, AMD will finally move away from PGA to LGA with the shift to AM5, the new socket set to replace AM4. The leak said ...