Intel's LGA1700 platform has been on the market for a couple of years, but there is still some demand for the previous LGA1200 platform. In addition, as tipped by momomo_us, Asus has quietly released three new H510 motherboards. Although Asus advertises the trio of motherboards as H510, they employ the prior H470 chipset.
It's not a novelty that motherboard manufacturers repurpose older chipsets into new products or vice versa. It's a practice that dates back some time. There are many reasons for recycling chipsets. Sometimes the original product was designed with a specific chipset in mind but said chipset had reached end-of-life (EOL) status. Therefore, the vendor has to replace it with another. At other times, a vendor may have an excess of outdated chipsets that the company has to offload somehow.
