Intel’s LGA-1851 Socket Pictured, Ready To Debut With Meteor Lake-PS & Also Arrow Lake “Core Ultra 200” Ready

Intel's next-gen LGA-1851 socket has finally surfaced, and will support both Meteor Lake-PS & Arrow Lake-S "Core Ultra 200" CPUs.

The LGA-1851 platform has set high hopes for consumers looking to switch to new standards, as the socket type will house Intel's Arrow Lake-S CPUs.

Still, interestingly, Intel has disclosed that the LGA-1851 will debut with the Meteor Lake-PS series, which is a lineup intended for the embedded segment, as discussed in a previous post. For a quick recap, the Meteor Lake-PS SKUs are made for emerging AI workloads in edge environments, which are getting a boost in performance due to the onboard Arc iGPU and the dedicated NPU engine.

Initial images of the LGA-1851 socket type, which was found in the MI1002 motherboard designed for the Meteor Lake-PS series, show that the socket is identical to the LGA 1700, mainly in terms of the overall dimensions, which are 45mm x 37.5mm. However, Intel has included more contact surfaces and attached dedicated shifting locking lugs to prevent older CPUs from mounting into the newer platform.

To quickly summarize the details, the rumors indicate the following features for Intel's LGA 1851 socket and Arrow Lake family:

While the debut of LGA-1851 in the Meteor Lake-PS series is engaging, the more intriguing element is how the embedded markets are evolving, mainly because just recently, AMD announced their own Versal Gen 2 Adaptive chips, specifically designed to capture the growing interest the embedded AI.

With the debut of Intel's new Meteor Lake-PS & Arrow Lake-S Desktop CPUs, things will indeed get more competitive, and it will be interesting to see which architecture surpasses to be the superior one,

News Source: ComputerBase