Upgrading CPUs in office computers makes a great deal of sense given that while CPU technology has advanced greatly, other components live longer lives before they become obsolete. Upgrading poses a ...

Many products are designed with today's high-performance ICs. Without sockets, the design, testing, and/or production phases of new product development would be chaotic, but as devices are designed ...

A family of 0.50 mm lead-pitch sockets is intended for production, development, test and debug where a finer pitch socket is needed. Sockets available are a ball-grid array (BGA), chip-scale package ...

Using PGA chip packages is one of several choices when deciding how to attach a chip to a pc board. Socketing the processor rather than permanently soldering it to the board has some obvious ...