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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On top of having hundreds of small pins in one socket, one very important factor is pins are designed like springs to have an specific amount of contact force on the chip, to enable the chip to contact all the pins; this makes the pins more fragile.

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