Recently, various news sources have convinced users that the announcement of 14nm Intel Rocket Lake-S processors will take place in January, but they will be released later in the first quarter of this year, no earlier than March. MSI customer support representatives confirmed this information in private correspondence.
The sequence of microcode updates of existing motherboards based on the Intel Z490 chipset allows you to count on their compatibility with Rocket Lake-S processors, which will retain the design of the LGA 1200 but will bring support for the PCI Express 4.0 interface, which has already become widespread in the desktop segment through the efforts of both AMD and NVIDIA.
On the pages of one of the South Korean resources reviewing the characteristics of the MSI MAG B460M motherboard based on the Intel B460 chipset, a customer support representative replied to the user, who explained that compatibility with Intel Rocket Lake-S processors will be provided not only for motherboards based on Intel Z490 but also for products based on Intel B460 and H410, just the flagship chipset of the outgoing generation will receive it first. Directly processors Rocket Lake-S, according to a source, will be launched on sale at the end of March this year. BIOS updates for compatible motherboards will be released early.
