Intel will launch the Z399 and X599 chipsets along with new processors this year
Despite serious stock problems at Intel, the company will launch the Z399 and X599 chipsets for new HEDT range processors.
It is not a secret that Intel's problems with the development of 10nm processors are causing many problems for the company and relying too much on 14nm creates a significant problem in terms of stock as the company's manufacturing is at full load. Intel now seems to intend to split the high-performance platform with two different solutions. The first is the Intel Z399 chipset for the 2066 socket during Q2018 599 and the Intel X3647 chipset alongside the LGA XNUMX socket.
Intel could launch two new chipsets for the HEDT market by the end of the year.
This strategy for which there was no data so far would be a response to the arrival of the second generation Threadripper launched by AMD. Logically these new chipsets will hit the market along with new processors of which nothing is known.
According to early speculation, the LGA 3647 socket that uses the X599 chipset will be based on the Skylake-X processors that will bring with it twenty-four, twenty-six and twenty-eight core processors that very few or practically no users will take advantage of.
Processors using the LGA 2066 socket and the Z399 chipset will also be based on Skylake-X in principle and will arrive with a maximum of twenty and twenty two cores. It is not known if these new processors will be compatible with current X299 motherboards through some kind of BIOS update.
Implementing the LGA 3647 socket means that the LGA 2066 socket boards will not receive any more 'Extreme' slicer processors as this is reserved for the X599 platforms. Going to the Z399 chipset is a must after AMD got hold of the X399 identifier for its chipsets.
Source: TPU
