Ball or Pin CPU sockets come in two major types -- ball-grid array and pin-grid array. PGA sockets look like a checkerboard with lots of squares.

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 ...

Any CPU listed as LGA (“Land Grid Array”) will not have pins; instead, the pins will be in the motherboard socket. Chips listed as PGA (“Pin Grid Array”) do have pins, and drop into a ...

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 ...

On its previous sockets, AMD has used a Pin Grid Array (PGA) layout, where the pins are on the CPU rather than the motherboard.