Alleged Intel Meteor Lake-S “LGA 1851” Desktop CPU Pictured In The Wild

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An alleged Intel Meteor Lake-S Desktop CPU which is centered around the LGA 1851 socket has been pictured in the wild.

There have been various rumors about Intel canceling its Meteor Lake-S Desktop CPUs which were supposed to feature support on the new LGA 1851 socketed platform however every now and then we get to see new support for the chip being added to patches/kernels and now we have even have our first look at what's presumably an early Intel Meteor Lake-S sample.

In a picture posted by @wxnod, we get to see an unusual CPU that resembles the existing LGA 1700 CPUs such as the 12th Gen Alder Lake and 13th Gen Raptor Lake chips but upon closer inspection, the chip starts to look a lot different than those. First up is the IHS or the Integrated Heat Spreader which looks quite a bit larger than the ones featured on the existing chips.

Secondly, the gold pads on the side & the positioning of the caps are not seen on any existing CPU. And the biggest change is the two notches for the socket to hold the chip in place. For existing chips, there are four notches and even the two featured on the alleged Meteor Lake CPU are in a different position than the LGA 1700 socket.

In fact, a similar notch design was leaked by Igor's Lab in his blueprints of the LGA 1851 socket. At least this confirms that this is indeed an LGA 1851 socketed CPU and not one designed for the LGA 1700 socket. So the question remains, what is it? Well, the answer seems to come from HKEPC who are quite sure that this is an Intel Meteor Lake-S CPU with the 6+8 core configuration. Those will be 6 Redwood Cove P-Cores and 8 Crestmont E-Cores. We will see similar configurations in the first gen Core Ultra family which is scheduled to launch this fall.

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