Ceramic Pin Grid Array

Pentium with 133 MHz in on a ceramic carrier

The Ceramic Pin Grid Array ( CPGA ) is a housing design for electronic chips such as processors .

The semiconductor chip is fixed on a thermally conductive ceramic carrier, over and through which the signal and data lines are routed to a grid (array) of needle-like contacts (pins). As a rule, the carrier with its contacts is plugged into a corresponding socket .

Common processors with CPGA as a carrier are for example the first generation of the Intel Pentium processors, the socket A variants of the AMD Athlon (only Thunderbird) and the Duron family.

See also

• Plastic Pin Grid Array (PPGA)
• Organic Pin Grid Array (OPGA)