Intel secured later last year that it would release new desktop processors based on the Rocket Lake architecture as early as this year. Now seems to be the end of March.

An MSI spokesman has revealed on the Korean Danawa site that Intel is coming to release 11. next-generation Core processors to the desktop in late March. The comment was made in a series of questions related to the current 400 series motherboards and the main topic of the message was their BIOS updates.

The new processors will run on existing 400 series motherboards, but you will only get the most out of them on new 500 series motherboards. At least some of the motherboards in the 400 series will also support PCI Express 4.0 speeds with the new processors, but the motherboards in the 500 series will have other including a new M.2 connector directly connected to the processor, taking advantage of the four new PCIe lines added to Rocket Lake processors. In addition, 500 series motherboards increase the DMI 3.0 bus between the processor and the chipset to double the speed by eight bands.

Sources: Harukaze 5719 @ Twitter, VideoCardz