by Jordi Bercial Yesterday at 11 : 30 . ..

A while ago we were talking about how testing equipment for the LGA socket 1700, thus confirming that Alder Lake-S would arrive with this socket . In this way, months later, we see how finally the first processor with this socket smiles for the camera through Videocardz.

Although there is not much to see, we can detail what we already saw at the time, and is that the processor will abandon the classic square format to go to a rectangular format , larger, to be able to house more pins.

Thanks to Therefore, a total of 1700 of these pins will be responsible for providing power and communication with the outside , yes, at the cost of a size of 30. 5x 45 .0mm , being exactly the same width as a previous generation processor, which arrived and continues to arrive today with a size of 30. 5x 37. 5mm.

Among the expected specifications for ra Alder Lake-S we found a node of 10 nanometers with Golden Cove and Gracemont architectures , as well as a maximum of 16 cores, support for DDR5 memory and PCI Express 5.0 and Gen graphics 12 , so it is possible that having two architectures on the same chip is the cause of having a larger substrate and a greater number of pins.

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Jordi Bercial

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