Short for ball grid array, BGA is a memory chip with solder balls on the underside for mounting. The picture is a close-up example of the bottom of a processor with BGA. As you can see, instead of having pins like PGA, BGA has solder balls.

Computer abbreviations, CPU terms, DIP, LGA, Memory terms, PGA, Solder

  • Memory (RAM) help and support.
  • CPU help and support.