First, Rocket Lake-S processors will work with motherboards based on Intel 500 series chipsets.
Secondly, these chips will receive an updated architecture, although there are no details about them yet. It is supposed that these can be kernels Willow covethat are used in the 10nm mobile Tiger Lake. That is, the features of mobile chips adapt to 14-nanometer desktop solutions.
And thirdly, the new items will receive integrated graphics of the twelfth generation Intel Xethat will provide support for HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4a.
The most interesting thing is that the Rocket Lake-S processors will receive 20 lines of PCI Express 4.0. Sixteen of them will provide work with video cards, and the remaining four are designed for SSD NVMe.
As for the chipsets, the “five hundredths” will support SSD-drives and expansion cards with PCIe 3.0 interface (24 lines in total). Thunderbolt 4, USB 3.2 2 × 2 and 2.5 Gb / s network controllers are promised.
The exact release dates for processors and motherboards are not yet indicated.
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