News Intel's LGA1851 Platform Likely to Persist Through 2026

[Admin]

Intel's LGA1851 and Z890 platform is expected to support at least two generations of CPUs.

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2024-2026 looks like a typical two generations cycle for Intel, nothing unusual there.

 

[Eximo]

Or perhaps two generations plus a refresh considering recent events.

 

[edzieba]

I love how "Intel CPU sockets will persist across two generations, with one generation released per year, and both CPUs and chipsets both forward and backward compatible" continues to be news (or even 'rumours'), despite being the case for over a decade.

 

[Ryrynz]

Or perhaps two generations plus a refresh considering recent events.

All depends on whether the node is up and running well. Refreshes are just a way of life at this point.

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

Intel forcing you to upgrade to DDR5 is A-OK,
AMD forcing you to upgrade to DDR5 is sacrilegious.
Hypocrisy in action.

 

[ilukey77]

LOL if only Intel pulled long socket life id seriously look at them for once but 2 gens !

Ohh my bad 2 gens and a refresh to with the 12 13 and 14th MEH still not impressed !!

 

[Eximo]

Intel forcing you to upgrade to DDR5 is A-OK,
AMD forcing you to upgrade to DDR5 is sacrilegious.
Hypocrisy in action.

Intel has been quite friendly with DDR transitions. Offering CPUs with dual memory controllers for a whole socket twice now. I can't recall if they did DDR2/DDR3 boards, but I think they did. I was using HEDT back then which only supported DDR3. I transitioned from AM2 with DDR2.

Skylake/Kabylake support DDR3/DDR4.
Alder Lake/Raptor Lake support DDR4/DDR5.

So minimum they offered more options than AMD in that regard.

AMD making AM5 DDR5 only is logical, and I don't think there were too many complaints outside of the early motherboard pricing. They went second on DDR5 support and prices had stabilized. I feel bad for all the early DDR5 Intel adopters who paid top prices for mediocre memory. (I did the same when DDR3 was new on X58, memory cost me as much as the CPU)

Have to make the cutover sometime.

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

Intel has been quite friendly with DDR transitions. Offering CPUs with dual memory controllers for a whole socket twice now. I can't recall if they did DDR2/DDR3 boards, but I think they did. I was using HEDT back then which only supported DDR3. I transitioned from AM2 with DDR2.

Skylake/Kabylake support DDR3/DDR4.
Alder Lake/Raptor Lake support DDR4/DDR5.

So minimum they offered more options than AMD in that regard.

AMD making AM5 DDR5 only is logical, and I don't think there were too many complaints outside of the early motherboard pricing. They went second on DDR5 support and prices had stabilized. I feel bad for all the early DDR5 Intel adopters who paid top prices for mediocre memory. (I did the same when DDR3 was new on X58, memory cost me as much as the CPU)

Have to make the cutover sometime.

My point exactly, AM5 was built to accommodate 4-5 generations of CPU so it makes no sense to spend additional R&D money making AM5 and ryzen 7000 compatible with DDR4 when it’ll be for one single generation. AM4 and the 5000 &X3D CPU’s are still widely available and cheap so AMD had no need to make Ryzen 7000 backwards compatible with DDR4.

And Tom’s Hardware mentioned the “atrocity” of AM5/ryzen 7000 DDR5 only ever chance they could get. Like I said…hypocrisy

 

[TerryLaze]

My point exactly, AM5 was built to accommodate 4-5 generations of CPU so it makes no sense to spend additional R&D money making AM5 and ryzen 7000 compatible with DDR4 when it’ll be for one single generation. AM4 and the 5000 &X3D CPU’s are still widely available and cheap so AMD had no need to make Ryzen 7000 backwards compatible with DDR4.

And Tom’s Hardware mentioned the “atrocity” of AM5/ryzen 7000 DDR5 only ever chance they could get. Like I said…hypocrisy

How would it be for only one generation if CPUs are still widely available?!
That means that people could still have the new CPUs with DDR4.
If it makes sense is besides the point, people do things that make no sense all the time.
Especially if a platform is meant to last a long time it is more important that it supports more things and not fewer.

AMD didn't want to spend the money on supporting DDR4 because then they would have to spend the extra money on all of those 4-5 generations you are talking about and they just didn't want to do that.
And it's not like I don't agree with them, it was the best way to do it for the company.