Patent ID: 8410602

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a segmented socket to receive a single semiconductor package, the socket to a couple to a circuit board and having a frame including a plurality of segments with gaps therebetween and mounted in the frame, each of the plurality of segments with including terminals to be coupled to corresponding contacts of the semiconductor package, the frame including a plurality of streets located between the segments, the terminals localized within the plurality of segments and not within the plurality of streets, at least one of the streets including a conduit within the at least one street and routed therethrough to enable thermal transfer during operation of the semiconductor package, wherein the conduit is to be coupled to a thermal solution outside of the socket, and a metal plate adapted within an interior of the socket and surrounded by the plurality of segments, wherein the metal plate includes at least one embedded conduit coupled to the conduit within one of the streets, which in turn is coupled to a heat sink coupled to an integrated heat spreader of the semiconductor package.