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

About damn time. Have to admit, feels nice knowing my 9950x3d will be swapped with a 24 core next gen, and a 32 core the gen after till the eventual AM6 shift. I would not give up this flexibility for Intel even if they had the performance crown....But if they also support multiple generations and have a winner on their hands architecture wise...opens up the possibility of getting an intel chip again.
 
sleepeeg3 said:
Someone necro this thread in 5 years and let's see how true it was. Not buying it (literally).
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Honestly they would be stupid not to do this. It's clear AMD has the advantage, a more flexible design standpoint, cheaper production costs to profit margin, and is known for platform longevity now. If Intel doesn't adopt this and still lose out on gaming performance with their new chips as I expect they will...Why would the consumer bother buying Intel at that point? Pretty much a 99% guarantee they will follow AMD's footsteps or they'll just hemorrhage more market share, they don't have the luxury of forcing 2 gen platforms anymore when they had a lead in the past.
 
Biggest question I have about this is if it indicates a shakeup in Intel's internal design processes.

At the time they went to two year sockets they also had 2 independent CPU design teams, and it was Tick (Team A), Tock (Team A), Tick (Team B), Tock (Team B).

Letting each team own their own socket gave them more freedom to try different things without having to get buyin from another team halfway around the globe.

Are they going to make the two teams share socket designs going forward or is the extended architecture lifespan that was forced by their manufacturing debacle going to be the new norm with each team owning a socket for 3 or 4 years and only needing to create a new base design every 6 or 8?
 
OEM’s used to like the sockets changing all the time it kept the supply chain moving and kept people from upgrading their own machines down the road.

That’s changed, desktop sales are driving down, OEM’s have been switching to mobile chips and PCIe and memory is stagnant. It’s going long periods with no change, the primary reason Intel was constantly swapping sockets is gone, and good riddance.
 
LGA 2011 lasted from ~2011 > ~2016. The problem was chipsets changed, making backwards compatibility not always possible.
 
we could be starting to not care that much about upgrading pci 7 from 6, ddr7 from 6 and so on (right now already the case for ddr6 from 5 and pci 6 from 5) or at least the window before anything get out that use it for regular people to care to be quite large, the more you flirt with some physical limit of copper signal the less the stock/motherboard can upgrade fast.

And intel could see upgrading tiles on the cpu package has what get updated more and more...

  • DDR: 1998; 28 years ago
  • DDR2: 2003; 23 years ago
  • DDR3: 2007; 19 years ago
  • DDR4: 2014; 12 years ago
  • DDR5: 2020; 6 years ago

5 years, 4, 7, now it will be 8 years for desktop at least, socket cycle can slow down.
 
With the reports from Hynux yesterday that they think the ram shortage may go to 2030 now, this is more like Intel trying to make a move of necessity on their part look like they intentionally decided to do something consumer friendly.

I wish I could believe they are doing this because AMD proved it's good to return to this model for consumer PC hardware...

But it's more likely it's because Intel is facing fab shortages and permanent price increases for PC hardware limiting what end users can physically buy or afford to spend for the next 4-6 years minimum so reducing the need for replacing MBs and RAM is the only way they can produce and sell more CPUs for the foreseeable future.
 
kac77 said:

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

Hassan Mujtaba •Mar 20, 2026
Future Intel Desktop sockets might support several generations of CPUs, as hinted by Robert Hallock in an interview with Club386.
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Man is PC gaming still alive? Part of the problem there are so many games everyone is playing different games so it seems dead. Then you have cell Phone reality whenever I go outside for lunch about 12 people are all looking at their phones.

I suspect Intel will do this with Nova Lake next year same MBs.
 
I remember back in 2020/21 where Intel supported both 10x and 11x CPUs on the same socket but then the ITX board I had didn't issue a firmware update to support the 11x, despite the larger sized sibling motherboard models doing so. I could see some brands fucking over customers like this even if Intel did offer more socket longevity.
 
oh oh oh can the new multichip socket be SLOT B?
(since we already had slot a)
what a failure that was
 
Okatis said:
I remember back in 2020/21 where Intel supported both 10x and 11x CPUs on the same socket but then the ITX board I had didn't issue a firmware update to support the 11x, despite the larger sized sibling motherboard models doing so. I could see some brands fucking over customers like this even if Intel did offer more socket longevity.
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Well they even went 12th-14th gen recently on the same board. There was also a lot of ++++++++ going on back before 12th gen as well which lead to some of that.

I'm looking for real generational uplifts, more than once per socket, before I get hyped up.
 
Okatis said:
I remember back in 2020/21 where Intel supported both 10x and 11x CPUs on the same socket but then the ITX board I had didn't issue a firmware update to support the 11x, despite the larger sized sibling motherboard models doing so. I could see some brands fucking over customers like this even if Intel did offer more socket longevity.
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7th to 8th gen could 'technically' run on the same board with a mod.
 
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