Intel Meteor Lake is scheduled for next year, but you may need to upgrade your motherboard at that time. The Blue Team’s next best line of gaming processors are rumored to use the new socket, which could make the Alder Lake transition more expensive.
According to a reputable material source, Moore’s Law is dead, Intel Meteor Lake The CPUs may drop LGA 1700, suggesting that Raptor Lake will be the last generation to support the socket. Although the new design is supposed to be only slightly larger than the LGA 1700 in terms of space, it will potentially include 50% more pins than the current generation standard.
MLID claims that Meteor Lake uses an LGA 2551 connector, but a further leak from Benchlife clarifies that it’s actually an LGA 1851 (via Videocardz). Inside information suggests that the 2551-pin version could be a BGA variant, but indicates that it is unlikely to be used for desktop products.
Last month, Intel showed off its Meteor Lake CPU package at a pop-up event, giving us a look at its design. The tiled array design appears to eliminate the need for a separate PCH (Platform Controller Hub) by stacking it in a quad array configuration. The new approach should encourage flexibility, as it will allow the company to create new options more easily than before.
As for when Meteor Lake will arrive, the next-gen chip could arrive later than expected. MLID says that instead of going up against AMD’s Zen 4, the processor could arrive in Q4 2023 as a “reluctant” Zen 5 competitor.
Naturally, this delay will potentially give Team Red a head start in the race for next year’s best gaming processors, but with the Ryzen 7000 and Intel Raptor Lake on the horizon, we might be getting ahead of ourselves.
Source : PC Gamesn
