Intel previously officially confirmed that the new Rocket Lake-S processors will remain compatible with current LGA 1200 motherboards and will be available in Q1 2021. The 11th generation processors will be based on the new Cypress Cove microarchitecture. The chips will be able to offer up to eight Sunny Cove computing cores, as well as up to 16 virtual threads. These processors should use the 14nm manufacturing process for the last time among desktop chips.

The new chips will receive more than 20 more PCIe lanes and will acquire support for the PCI Express 4.0 standard, which the current 10th generation of Comet Lake-S processors is deprived of. The Rocket Lake-S family of chips will be able to work with motherboards of the current 400-series, but motherboard manufacturers are already developing new solutions based on the new 500-series logic.

Recall that after the release in early 2021 of the Rocket Lake-S processors, at the end of the year we are expecting the announcement of the 12th generation Intel Core processors of the Alder Lake family. The manufacturer himself has confirmed this information but has not yet decided on the launch time. Most likely, the release of these processors will take place no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2021. Intel has yet to announce that it plans to introduce a new chipset for Alder Lake processors. However, it is clear that 12th generation chips will require new motherboards with a new LGA 1700 socket using exactly 1,700 pads. This information has already been confirmed earlier thanks to the leaked photos of the new chips. Today, VideoCardz has published a new photo of one of the Alder Lake chips.

According to the available information, the dimensions of the 12th generation processors will be 45.0 x 37.5 mm. For the same Comet Lake-S, working with an LGA1200 processor socket, they are 37.5 × 37.5 mm.