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What about a socket that is like USB-C, there is no wrong way to insert it. Though I imagine such a socket would be an insane task to complete and have numerou
by tscs37 9y ago
What about a socket that is like USB-C, there is no wrong way to insert it.
Though I imagine such a socket would be an insane task to complete and have numerous problems with latency and speed.
- GlitchMr 9y agoWaste of pins. You would need to quadruple number of pins or so (with a square shape, it may be worth to just have rectangular to just double). It is possible, fairly sure, but not really practical.
- wccrawford 9y agoOr maybe only double the pins, if you no longer make it square. But you're right, it's a waste of time and money.
- zokier 9y agoCouldn't you hypothetically design the pinout to be suitably symmetrical to avoid major part of the wasted pins. For example if the chip has 4 memory channels, then lay out the memory pins identically but rotated in each quadrant. Same principle should apply to other major pin count consumers (pcie lanes, power/ground pins), which leaves somewhat small area that needs to be duplicated/quadrupled. Of course implementing such design would be ridiculously complicated with very little benefit. But it would be pretty cool though :)
- SmellTheGlove 9y agoEngineering a socket like that has to be a low priority. It's not as though people are reseating their CPUs every day, and generally speaking, the people that do it can handle aligning it properly.
- solotronics 9y agoI helped a friend build a computer back in school and when he got the parts in the mail he hurriedly started building (against my advice to wait until I got there) he put the CPU in the wrong way and bent some of the pins. So it does happen more than you would think.
- SmellTheGlove 9y agoI'm not even mad. It's hard to jam them in the wrong way nowadays! What socket was this?