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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Newer CPUs are totally flat on the pin side, and the socket has little back/bent spring contactors. The socket is still fragile, but you can whip the cpu like a frizbee a few times and it still works fine.
I assume..

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