Moar pins inbound. There is a new socket inbound, LGA 1851, intended for Intel's Meteor Lake processors. Intel has all but confirmed that the 1851 socket would be available for its upcoming Meteor Lake processors, confirming earlier rumours.

According to ComputerBase, the citations are available in an XML file on the Intel design tools website. Clearly, this has something to do with the LGA 1851. Granite Rapids AP, Arrow Lake, and Meteor Lake for the desktop, together with a wide variety of socket and RAM configurations, have been leaked from Intel's website. This gives us a general idea of the schedule, lends credence to rumours and earlier assumptions, and raises issues regarding, among other things, the status of Fischer Lake.

Intel's documentation is lacking in specifics when it comes to core configurations and clock speeds; instead, it details the platform, the market segment it targets, the particular socket, and (sometimes) the RAM support by way of a code name. Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake CPU is a good case in point. Among the features of this answer is the support for LPDDR5X-8400 and the Arrow Lake-PX architecture. Documentation indicates that Arrow Lake-S supports DDR5 through UDIMM, SO-DIMM, and ECC.

Intel Meteor Lake supports RAM speeds of up to LPDDR5X-7500 and is available in three different variants (S for desktops, M and P for mobile devices). There have been recent reports that both Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake will be released simultaneously, with Meteor Lake aimed at notebooks and Arrow Lake for desktops.

Socket LGA1851 for Meteor Lake processors has been spotted on an Intel website.