Intel slightly modifies the LGA1200 socket anchor to avoid cross-generation compatibility

Intel's strategy regarding processors has been harshly criticized by users. The reason for them is in AMD, since the company has kept the AM4 socket in several families of Ryzen processors. Intel for Comet Lake-S to launch LGA1200 socket, a new socket to support the 10 cores based on 14nm lithography.

Now a comparison image between the LGA1151 and LGA1200 sockets has been leaked. Intel has modified the docking system for the new LGA1200 processors to avoid socket compatibility. The company in each new family of processors, despite being all based on 14nm, there is no backward compatibility, which users do not like very much.

Intel socket physical modification to avoid compatibility

Comet Lake-S is based on the Skylake architecture released in 2015 and is also based on 14nm lithography. The process in this time has been refined and improved slightly, in addition to increasing the number of cores. These new processors add Thermal Velocity Boost technology, which increases the frequency of the processors if the thermal conditions allow it.

Intel's strategy for the socket LGA1200, has been to modify the alignment points. In the LGA1151 socket they are in the upper part, while in the Comet Lake it has gone to the lower part. The processor notches also go to the bottom, of course. Apparently this mod and adding 49 additional pins are the only changes.

A questionable strategy on the part of Intel, which except in the Coffee Lake and Coffee Lake Refresh, has not offered backward compatibility. This was seen in the motherboards for Skylake and Kaby Lake, which did not offer cross-generation compatibility. Some hobbyist hardware engineers managed to modify the BIOS to boot older generation processors.