Intel May Take A Page From AMD With CPU Socket Longevity Starting With Nova Lake

One of the greatest strengths of building an AMD-based machine in the last eight years has been AMD's fantastic support for Socket AM4. Socket AM5 looks much the same, with at least one more generation of CPUs coming to the DDR5-based platform. In that time, Intel launched no less than four separate desktop platforms, many of which never got a truly compelling performance upgrade option in their lifespan.

It looks like that may once again be the case for the beleaguered LGA 1851 platform upon which Arrow Lake sits. The first-generation desktop Core Ultra processors haven't exactly been a runaway success, in part due to early software and firmware issues, and in part due to underwhelming gaming performance that sometimes lagged behind chips from two generations back. The current rumor is that there will be an Arrow Lake refresh on the current LGA 1851 platform with minor upgrades ...