Intel, AMD, and Other CPU Rumors
Intel today has officially announced the 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop CPUs, see the press release below:
The 11th Gen Intel® Core™ S-series desktop processors (code-named “Rocket Lake-S”) launched worldwide today, led by the flagship Intel® Core™ i9-11900K. Reaching speeds of up to 5.3GHz with Intel® Thermal Velocity Boost1, the Intel Core i9-11900K delivers even more performance to gamers and PC enthusiasts.
The upcoming Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop processors will be officially available for pre-order on March 16th next month. On that day Intel will have a product announcement for the 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPUs. While the release date and reviews will be available on March 30th, two weeks after announcement.
According to latest rumors on HKEPC, the upcoming Intel Rocket Lake-S desktop processors will be officially released on March 15th, 2021. This seems several weeks early than previous rumored release date. Intel has already launched 500 series motherboards (Can be pre-order here) with full support for Rocket Lake-S CPUs and PCI Gen4 for GPU and fast NVMe storage.
According to latest rumors, Intel may announce upcoming Rocket Lake-S 11th Gen desktop processors in January. In several weeks ago, Intel confirmed that Rocket Lake-S processor will be launched in March 2021, seems Intel has moved up the release date for Rocket Lake-S processors.
Intel has officially released more features and specs of upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop processors. The new Rocket Lake-S will be available in the first quarter of 2021. The series will support new 500-series chipsets, but the support is also expected on existing 400-series motherboards.
According to latest rumors, the upcoming Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop processors are expected to be launched in March of 2021, along with upcoming Intel 500-series motherboards.
According to Twitter user TUM_APISAK, Sisoftware has just leaked that upcoming Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop processors will support PCI-Express 4.0 devices, for example, an NVME SSD.