Why are CPU pins so fragile and why haven’t they been designed to make the pins hard to deform?

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Why are CPU pins so fragile and why haven’t they been designed to make the pins hard to deform?

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You need pins to be really small so it’s hard to make them strong, with PGA it wasn’t that bad since they inserted into holes on the socket so they were kinda stronger but with LGA you need pins to be a bit springy so they make good contact but that also makes them a lot more fragile.

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