Intel is preparing its Arrow Lake processors to rival the best CPUs in 2024. Igor's Lab recently dropped a bomb on the hardware world, leaking the performance projections for Arrow Lake. Making good on its promise, the German news outlet has revealed information on the forthcoming LGA1851 socket that will house the new Arrow Lake parts.
The LGA1851 socket, as its name reveals, will sport 1,851 pins, 9% more than the current LGA1700 socket. Increasing pins will help improve the I/O interfaces and close the gap with AMD's AM5 socket. As a quick summary, the LGA1700 platform only provides a single PCIe 4.0 x4 interface for SSDs. The downside to this design is that PCIe 5.0 SSDs have to fight with graphics cards for the available PCIe lanes. Igor's Lab provided the schematics for the LGA1851 socket, showing the increase in the PCIe area to provide more bandwidth. The LGA1851 will reportedly arrive with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface, finally bringing native support for PCIe 5.0 SSDs. Therefore, the primary PCIe x16 slot will be left alone.
