📚 Intel's 11th Gen Rocket Lake desktop CPUs will debut in Q1 2021

The upcoming desktop CPUs feature PCIe 4.0 support. What you need to know Intel has announced that its 11th Gen Rocket Lake desktop CPUs will be introduced in the first quarter of 2021. The CPUs will support PCIe 4.0, unlike the 10th Gen Comet Lake S designs. Intel is still leveraging the 14nm node, but it is switching to a new Willow Cover architecture. Intel's 10th Gen Comet Lake S desktop CPUs debuted earlier this year, with the Core i9-10900K in particular offering sizeable gains in gaming performance from the previous generation. The mid-range Core i7-10700K and Core i5-10600K also come with exciting gains in a lot of areas, but one downside is that the 10th Gen designs don't support PCIe 4.0, unlike their AMD counterparts. Intel is aiming to fix that with the 11th Gen Rocket Lake series. The chip manufacturer has confirmed that the 11th Gen Rocket Lake series will make its debut in Q1 2021, and that it will include PCIe 4.0 support. Intel didn't go into architectural d... ...