Organic pin grid array

Organic pin grid array
An OPGA CPU. Note the brown colour - many OPGA parts are coloured green. The die is in the centre of the device, and the four grey circles are foam spacers to relieve pressure caused by the heat sink from the die.

The Organic Pin Grid Array (OPGA) is a type of connection for integrated circuits, and especially CPUs, where the silicon die is attached to a plate out of an organic plastic which is pierced by an array of pins which make the requisite connections to the socket.

A popular type of CPU to employ the OPGA is the AMD Athlon XP.

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