Gigabyte: Z490 supports Intel Rocket Lake-S

During an announcement of Gigabyte's Z490 series motherboards, a company representative confirmed that these motherboards will support Intel's 11th Gen Core "Rocket Lake-S" processors. It was already speculated that Z490 might support Rocket Lake but this is the first official confirmation:

During a live stream covering the announcement of just announced Gigabyte Z490 motherboards, manufacturer representative have decided to publically ask and then answer questions from viewers. One of the questions was rather a straightforward question regarding future support for “11th Gen Core Rocket Lake” with Z490 motherboards. The host gave a brief answer that the Z490 will support it, although he was not sure if that information should be made public. Well, now it is.

Rocket Lake-S is expected to be out later this year. This new architecture is still 14nm but will have PCI Express 4.0 support and integrated Xe-based graphics.