Intel Comet Lake-S platform gets LGA 1200 socket

Intel’s Comet Lake-S generation of desktop processors, scheduled for 2020, appears to be accompanied by the move to a new lga1200 socket. According to a newly published slide, that should be the successor of the current lga1151 v2 socket.

The slide, published by Hong Kong’s XFastest, shows details that will be available on the Comet Lake-S platform. The socket is listed as lga1200, so a socket with 1200 pins. That increased number of pins is probably necessary because desktop processors with up to ten cores and a TDP of 125W appear, in addition to 65W and 35W chips.

The slide mentions integrated support for USB 3.1 Gen2, 802.11ax or WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5 and Thunderbolt 3. The 400 Series chipset supports up to twenty-four PCI-e 3.0 lanes, up to ten USB ports, six of which are USB 3.1 Gen2 interfaces and up to six SATA600 ports. Furthermore, Intel speaks on the slide of ‘advanced overclocking for core and memory’, without going into detail.

Earlier roadmaps already showed that Comet Lake-S desktop processors will still be produced at 14nm, will contain a maximum of ten cores and will be released in the first quarter of 2020.