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From the looks of it, Comet Lake-S and Rocket-Lake-S will be the only two-generation processors to run on LGA1200 series motherboards, at least that’s how it seems now. That means you won’t be able to quickly update based on your motherboard.
Next year, in 2021, Alder Lake has been scheduled, it is mentioned that the pin count will change again, towards a LGA1700 socket. So while the LGA1200 has just been unveiled, it will only last for two generations, making a motherboard not a fairly cheap long-term investment.
It’s Lit-Tech, a Taiwan-based manufacturer responsible for voltage regulator testing tools in the Asian market that already includes Alder Lake-S compatible equipment. This is not the first time we have heard this, in January, a leak from the Momomo_US and Komachi_Ensaka accounts said that the successor to the LGA 1200 socket would be LGA 1700, and that it would be … the Alder Lake-S platform, which in addition to a The new socket will bring a new rectangular format for the processors, which were normally square at least on the Intel side. It is also rumored that “Alder Lake-S” would follow a BIG style of processor cores, massive cores for heavy and small workloads to stay energy friendly.
Taiwanese website PC_Shopping mentioned a rumor that Intel would also combine different CPU cores with Alder Lake-S on the desktop. Eight “small” and eight “large” cores would be merged, plus a graphics unit, all in one package. According to the leaked slide, a CPU with 8 + 8 small large cores would have a TDP of 125 watts. The socket design would be LGA 1700. The process technology would be based on Foveros technology, where Intel is stacking the dies in a package (think HBM2 on a GPU).
Alder Lake-S processors would have dimensions of 45 × 37.5 mm, while current processors like the i9-9900K have dimensions of 42.5 × 42.5 mm. This rectangular design and the fairly massive number of pins are likely due to a design shift towards a multi-die design housing.
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