According to our sources, the new Intel 500 series motherboards and Rocket Lake will not arrive until March 2021, months after the Ryzen solutions based on the Zen 3 architecture.
For a long time and especially in recent months, there have been rumors about the possible arrival of the new 11th generation “Rocket Lake” Intel Core processors aimed at the desktop sector by the end of the year.
Why are you late ?
The release of the 10th generation Comet Lake in May did not favor this timing. Because it's too tight. Many predicted the presentation of Rocket Lake processors around January 2021, during CES 2021. But ultimately, according to what Videocardz and HDTecnologia report, we will have to wait until March 2021 for a new range of Intel processors intended for PCs. Office.
Rocket Lake, already planned for some time, will be compatible with current 400 series motherboards with the LGA 1200 socket . These 14 nanometer processors support PCI Express 4.0 and a completely renewed architecture. These new processors will probably be an improvement on the Willow Cove, as they are codenamed Cypress Cove. They will feature a GPU based on the Xe architecture. Intel will therefore transport the features of Tiger Lake to office automation, with improvements in terms of performance.
The characteristics of Rocket Lake processors
The Rocket Lake processors inserted into these 400 series motherboards will allow you to use a PCIe 4.0 SSD thanks to the direct connection to the processor, but there will also be a new series of 500 series motherboards (Z590, H570, B560, H510 and W580) intended for these 11th generation processors. As for the Rocket Lake processor line, there is no precise information at the moment, but it seems that the offer will stop at 8 cores and 16 threads with a TDP of 125W. They are, however, capable of supporting higher boost frequencies using the Turbo Boost Max 3.0 . The OS thread manager will be able to send a maximum number of tasks.
Current 10th generation Core i9 processors feature up to 10 cores and 20 threads. Only Core i7s have 8 cores and 16 threads. The release of Rocket Lake is finally postponed to March 2021. Intel seems to be avoiding a direct confrontation with the Zen3-based processors that AMD is concocting.
