Intel to release LGA1700 socket with Alder Lake @ 10nm processors possibly by 2021
Intel is scheduled to introduce us to CES 2020 in Las Vegas to announce the 10th Gen Intel Comet Lake-S processors. The company's new processors will arrive with the new LGA1200 socket, as well as a new chipset. These processors will be replaced by the Alder Lake processors that will also arrive with a new socket, the LGA1700. Alder Lake will also be 10nm desktop processors.
Much is said about 10nm processors, of which we do not know much. A lithograph that arrives at least three years late on desktop processors. The 14nm lithography is causing the company to be unable to meet the high demand for processors on the market.
- Compatible CPU for Intel Z390, Intel Z370, Intel Q370, Intel H370, Intel B365, Intel B360 Intel H310 chipsets
Intel would launch a new socket for its 10nm processors
LGA1200 socket processors should hit the market by the end of the month at the latest and are based on 14nm. Possibly this socket will last two generations. Comet Lake will be the first family of processors for this socket and Rocket Lake will be the replacement and end of said socket.
About Alder Lake we know absolutely nothing, except the new socket and the promised lithograph. Everything indicates that this 10nm family will make use of the Willow Cove architecture instead of Sunny Cove, obsolete already in 2021. Sunny Cove is already used in Ice Lake processors for laptops. Tiger Lake will be based on Willow Cove and will be the replacement for Ice Lake. Tiger Lake will arrive with graphics with Gen12 (Intel Xe) iGPUs launching in 2021.
Possibly the Alder Lake processors already implement support for DDR5 memory and possibly also for PCIe 5.0. Intel hasn't shown the slightest interest in PCIe 4.0, as it offers hardly any relevant improvements over PCIe 3.0.
Ultimately, this information tells us that we will have two generations of 14nm processors. It also makes it clear to us that until 2021 we will not have processors with 10nm lithography, with possibly new technological improvements.
Source: PCGN
