Intel Meteor Lake Will get Socketed, However You Will not See It In Your Desktop

Meteor Lake PS Is Coming, In contrast to Meteor Lake-S

There are rumours of a new socketed Meteor Lake chip thanks to a post on Twitter from iBase motherboards, who counsel they’ll launch an LGA 1851 socket with specific assist for Meteor Lake PS.  The submit is gentle on particulars, and what little information offered appear somewhat off.  They describe the supported CPU as a as 14th Gen Intel Core Extremely, nonetheless Intel is supposedly changing their Core branding for Meteor Lake and newer chips, and the GPU is described as Iris Xe as a substitute of Arc graphics.  This might simply be a mixture up due to Intel’s current obsession with rebranding, however till we get particulars all of it appears a bit unusual.

The Meteor Lake PS chips bear the identical identify as Alder Lake PS, which might imply they’re particularly designed for IoT use and never desktop.  The non-PS chips can be for comparable to all-in-one PCs, mini-PCs, and NUC-like gadgets, there can be no conventional desktop model.  That’s not terribly odd for one in all Intel’s cell chips, although it’s odd to not see a socketed desktop model of a brand new era of chips.  The rumoured MI1002 motherboard may have twin Ethernet ports, COM ports, and 5G assist, which might make it helpful within the IoT world, if maybe a bit on the costly aspect.