Last week, Gigabyte suggested Intel was working on a new wave of LGA1700 processors—likely a Raptor Lake refresh for expanded DDR4 support during these memory-constrained times. It has even been busy releasing BIOS files for B760 and H610 motherboards to ensure full compatibility once those chips arrive, which it expected was around "early 2027".
This week, Gigabyte has scrubbed all mention of those forthcoming chips, removed the blog post, and replaced it with another that's much less explicit.
Here's the important bit from Gigabyte's blog post last week:
"Built on socket LGA1700 and expected to launch in early 2027, the new processors bring fresh performance to an established platform, and Gigabyte users can be ready from day one."
That's now been deleted.
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