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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There used to be [CPU’s that looked like SNES cartridges](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_1). There’s probably far too many pins on them these days to do something like that. Mounting the CPU that way made cooling a little trickier too.

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