Intel is scheduled to launch the Comet Lake-S processors in April 2020. The company will launch these processors under the 14nm lithography and will require new motherboards. The first reason is that the chipset will be new, being the Z490, but the socket is also renewed. We left behind the LGA 1151 socket to use the LGA 1200 socket.
14nm will continue to be used because the company has trouble making the jump to 10nm. These problems would arise because the number of valid chips per wafer would be less than necessary. Marketing processors below 10nm would mean raising prices a lot, even doubling the price of the company's current processors.
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The new family of processors will need new motherboards with the Z490 chipset, intended for the high-end. In addition, the W480 chipset for Workstation, the B460 chipset for companies and the H410 chipset for low cost will arrive.
According to the leaked information, the Comet Lake-S processors will have up to 10 cores and the HyperThreadring will return in all ranges. We will have up to 30 high-speed I / O tracks via chipset. Up to 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes, of which 16 are direct from the CPU and up to 24 lanes via chipset.
Added multimedia and display functions with support for 4K content. Added integrated and discrete Intel Wireless-AC support with additional support for Intel WiFi 6.
They will have support for improved memory and CPU overclocking (for enabled models). It has USB 3.2 Gen2x1 (10Gb / s) compatibility. Provides support for Intel Rapid Storage Technology. It has programmable four channel audio DSP. C10 and S0ix support for modern stand-by mode.
Intel is expected to initially market up to 9 output processor models. Comet Lake-S will segment Xeon W, Core i9, Core i7, Core i5, Core i3, Pentium and Celeron solutions.
Source: wccftech
