Why are CPU pins so fragile and why haven’t they been designed to make the pins hard to deform?
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ELI5 : This is a fake problem.
I never had pins on my CPU.
My secret? I pay Intel a good premium to move them to the motherboard.
Really, there is no good answer about pins fragility.
They shouldn’t be stronger, or flexible, or orange.
They shouldn’t be.
If you look at an Intel CPU, you will see pads instead of pins.
This is a sensible solution.
If you drop the cpu, there are no pins to bend.
Another solution is soldering, like Apple does.
It becomes very hard to swap the CPU, but it is never needed inside of a laptop.
AMD is the brand with the pins.
AMD should find an alternative to the pins problem because it is a fake issue that can be totally avoided.
If you want an original idea, I would love to see a CPU that uses optic fiber, or magnets, for the interface.
Would it be good? I don’t know.
Would it be better than pins? Probably.
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