LGA 1700 will last longer in the market
The other day Intel introduced the Comet Lake desktop processors, which on the whole differ little from Coffee Lake, but have a new version – LGA 1200. The same socket will be used by the CPU Rocket Lake, which is due out later this year.
Another new socket from Intel will appear next year. Unusual heterogeneous CPU Alder Lake will have the performance of LGA 1700
They will retain the 14-nanometer process technology but will switch to new architectures for both the CPU and GPU. The first 10-nanometer desktop generation will be Alder Lake. These will be very unusual processors containing cores of different classes. In particular, we have already seen the mention of a model that has eight “large” cores and eight “small” ones. The heterogeneous layout first appeared in the Intel Lakefield processor, which, however, has not yet entered the market. Alder Lake will use this approach on a large scale.
The first rumors also attributed a new socket to this generation, but now we can talk about it more confidently. In the database of Intel’s Lit-tech company, mention was made of Alder Lake processors, as well as their socket, LGA 1700. That is, the previous rumors were true.
The new socket will allow Intel to implement a completely new approach to configuring processors for this segment, as well as add a number of new technologies. In particular, processors with support for PCIe 5.0 may appear on this socket, although Alder Lake cannot boast of such support. Also, do not expect support for DDR5, and no generation of CPUs on the LGA 1700 socket.
By the way, the socket itself will be more long-lived than the LGA 1200 – at least three generations of processors will be released on it. New data also indicate that the Alder Lake CPU may come out next year, and not in 2022. True, most likely, closer to the end of the year.
