According to entries corridor from China, the 11 January Intel will officially announce the motherboards based on chipset of the series 500 , in particular the proposals Z 590, B 560 and H 510. The presentation will be held during the conference of the CES 2021 and the debut of the platforms designed by the partners will be immediate . may not be the same for Rocket Lake CPUs , i.e. 11th Generation Desktop Cores.

The source reports that the debut of the new CPUs would not yet have been fixed by Intel , but in every chance seems to have to wait until the end of February or the beginning of March . The US company, revealing the first characteristics of the Rocket Lake CPUs, generically indicated the first quarter of 2021 without specifying further.

If it were to go as indicated by the indiscretion, it would be a singular choice , as it would make little sense to present a series of motherboards that will make PCI Express 4.0 support the distinctive feature without offering parallel CPUs capable of exploiting this functionality. At the same time it could be a way to “knock a beat” and operate some disruptive maneuver against AMD and its Ryzen 5000.

However, a (partial) error of the source cannot be excluded: while it makes sense to talk about the new motherboards at CES 2021, the actual market debut may only come together with the CPUs. As they say, we’ll see, sometimes producers’ moves and common sense don’t run along the same track.

The new Rocket Lake CPUs will be compatible with the LGA socket 1200 and therefore can also be installed on motherboards of the series 400 . However, not all of them will be able to activate PCI Express 4.0, and in any case in the models in which it will be possible to do so it will be a support only for the first M.2 slot connected directly to the microprocessor. The motherboards of the series 500 should instead guarantee full support for PCIe 4.0, even as far as concerns video cards.

We remind you that the 11th generation desktop Core processors will be based on the new architecture x 86 Cypress Cove (the foundations are those of Ice Lake, that is the core Sunny Cove) able to improve the IPC performance by double digits . Next to a maximum of 8 cores and 16 thread we will find an Intel UHD integrated GPU based on Intel Xe Graphics architecture for higher performance up to 50% vs current Gen9 / 9.5 GPUs. The Rocket Lake chips will be made again with the manufacturing process at 14 nanometers , and in the past few hours the possible specifications of some models have been leaked , including the top of the line Core i9 – 11900 K.