New bomb that has just emerged that could further segment the motherboard and processor market: Intel could limit its platform by removing a key future feature such as PCIe 5.0. The information comes from an error in a motherboard and the registered font, where it triggered all the alarms. Do youThere is a layer of benefits?
If AMD was ahead of Intel with PCIe 4.0 in its processors and chipsets, Intel “screamed” did the same with PCIe 5.0 after its brief slide to the latest version which also shows Lisa Su’s for the time being. But this novelty could be segmented, split, and surely launched as a way to improve areas where motherboards will compete with their rival.
Intel to use PCIe 4.0 in its minor chipsets
An error as silly as it is revealing will sow doubt and discontent around the world after the good reviews received with Alder Lake-S and its processors. And it is that a platform reviewer noticed an interesting detail when they mistakenly received an incorrect box from the manufacturer where the test motherboard did not include the correct packaging but that of a ASUS PRIME B660-PLUS D4.
This was the trigger to set off the alarms because, as can be seen above, it is specified that the PCIe bus it uses is Gen 4 and not Gen 5. So keeping that in mind and by recapping the rumors and the leaks, we need to put it all in context. . We know almost all the characteristics of the i3 and i5 and part of the specifications of the assumptions B660
There is not a single mention of this topic and it is important, because it is the I / O controller that determines which version of the bus to use and it is the motherboard that connects it.
CPU with PCIe 5.0 and motherboards with PCIe 4.0?
It seems a bit odd and given the case it can no longer be said which chipset will physically support a bus and which will not. None of the i3 and i5 leaks mention it, so we assumed it would be PCIe 5.0, but what if it isn’t? They support both versions, but it’s the motherboard that defines which one to use via firmware, and then we come back to the chipset issue.
We don’t know the reasons, but we’ll speculate to shed some light. Is this a move to compete with AMD on price? We all know that PCIe 5.0 for its electrical novelties is much more expensive to implement. Limit the bus to PCIe 4.0 it evens out the conflict with AMD and makes chipset motherboards like the aforementioned B660 cheaper.
This would make sense, as you are not limiting CPU support for the Z690, allowing all processors to be installed and have PCIe 5.0, but if the more expensive chipset is not chosen, the user must decide that he is ready to pay and lose. . . Other than that, what would be the segmentation? H670 with PCIe 5.0 and the rest with 4.0? We will see, but no doubt this question will bring a tail.