The new Intel CPU socket, set to house the upcoming Arrow Lake desktop processors, has been unveiled. In a bit of a weird way. It's going to be the socket for desktop versions of the Meteor Lake chip architecture, which are only going to appear in the boring embedded space.
At this year's Embedded World conference in Germany, Intel has been letting visitors get all handsy with its new embedded Meteor Lake platform. The previously laptop-only chips don't require a separate motherboard chipset, so they're perfect from the space-restricted embedded sector. But something else that was showcased at the event was the LGA 1851 processor socket—Intel's replacement for LGA 1700, the socket which has been in service since the 12th Generation of Core CPUs.
