Intel Comet Lake-S has LGA1200 socket and requires 400-series motherboard

Posted on Friday, August 23 2019 @ 18:46 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

A new batch of leaks about Intel's upcoming Comet Lake-S desktop processor series indicates the chip giant will once again break backwards compatibility. The new 10th Gen Core chips will reportedly launch in Q1 2020 and will use the new LGA1200 socket. This means they will not be compatible with existing motherboards, you will need to buy a new 400-series motherboard.

The Comet Lake-S lineup will feature chips with up to ten cores and will be offered in 35W, 65W, and 125W TDP variants.

Assuming that the information provided by Xfastest is accurate, this would force a change right before switching to a smaller node. As the Comet Lake is still based on Skylake cores, meaning, it is still 14nm fabrication process. The first mainstream desktop architecture to use 10nm is believed to be Ice Lake.

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