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Intel To Offer AMD-Like Desktop Socket Longetivity, Supporting Multiple CPU Generations

Close-up of an unbranded LGA socket on a motherboard with visible capacitors and metal components.

Future Intel Desktop sockets might support several generations of CPUs, as hinted by Robert Hallock in an interview with Club386. Intel Might Finally Offer Extended Desktop Socket Support For Multiple CPU Generations If there’s one area where Intel has lagged versus AMD, that’s socket support. Since the release of the first “Ryzen” CPU back in 2017, AMD has released two sockets, AM4 and AM5. Meanwhile, Intel has a total of four socket releases since then, starting with LGA 1151, LGA 1200, LGA 1700, & the most recent, LGA 1851 socket. Later this year, Intel will release a fifth socket, LGA […]

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