While it is widely known that Intel is switching to a new socket for its upcoming Arrow Lake family of processors, the conventional wisdom taught everyone that this will mean the demise of LGA1700 in terms of socket support. Not this time, apparently – based on the leaks provided by @jaykihn0 on X (Twitter).
LGA1700 Lives On
It was originally thought that Bartlett Lake-S (BTL-S for short) is meant for networking and edge applications, but according to the leaker, BTL-S will be available to the general consumer market as well. It’ll be available in five major segments, namely Core 9, Core 7, Core 5, Core 3, and the “Intel Processor” segment that supersedes Pentium and Celeron lineups. It’s further split into two types of silicon – one with hybrid-core design based on Alder Lake and Raptor Lake dies, and the Bartlett Lake design that only features P-cores.
As shown on the chart above, the sole Core 9 (presumably under Core 200 series moniker) model will be a 12-core model with no E-cores present; down the line, you have either a 10 P-core under BTL or 8+16 core variant from ADL/RPL dies. BTL silicon variants spans across three segments, with the lowest end Core 5 model featuring 8 P-cores, whereas the lower end chip will adopt ADL/RPL-based designs.
Such a move is not something we’ve seen from Team Blue before, but it’s likely a response against AMD’s long-standing support towards its highly-successful Socket AM4 platforms, which continues to get new refreshed models to this day even when the focus is put on Socket AM5 models. Intel has traditionally adopted a 2-year lifecycle to new sockets, which meant the possibility of drop-in upgrades were few and far in between.
Based on the leaker’s post, Bartlett Lake may first debut on “early” January 2025, which means CES 2025 is very likely where we’ll see announcements. For the P-core only BTL variants, the leaker claims they’ll only be available from Q3 2025 onwards, so it’ll be a while before we see these chips showing up in the benchmarks.
Source: Videocardz
Pokdepinion: Good to see extended socket support from Intel here, if this turns out to be correct.
