Intel to release new CPUs on old socket in early 2027 says Gigabyte - memory crisis making DDR4 desirable again

Gigabyte is readying its B760 and H610 motherboards for new LGA1700 processors. Wait, what year is it?

"Built on socket LGA1700 and expected to launch in early 2027," Gigabyte says in a post on its website, "the new processors bring fresh performance to an established platform, and Gigabyte users can be ready from day one."

These are new LGA1700 chips. We're talking about fresh spins on Raptor Lake and Arrow Lake here, which previously made up the 12th/13th/14th Gen, and were last released as a major launch in 2023. That's a long time ago in CPU land. We've had two consecutive launches since, in Arrow Lake and the Arrow Lake refresh, neither of which dented AMD's stranglehold on the enthusiast market with its X3D chips.

So what chance do these old chips have of selling anything? Quite a good one, actually, as these old chips still support DDR4 memory.

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