Intel made the announcement a day before AMD plans to debut its Zen 3 architecture, which will power a new line of Ryzen desktop CPU processors.
(Credit: Intel) Not to be outdone by AMD, Intel will launch new CPUs for desktop PCs in Q1 2021. The upcoming 11th-generation Core processors have been codenamed Rocket Lake, and will arrive with support for PCIe 4.0, according to Intel Vice President John Bonini. “It’ll be another fantastic processor for gaming, and we’re excited to disclose more details in the near future,” he wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. We all knew Rocket Lake was coming. However, Intel dropped the announcement a day before AMD plans to introduce its Zen 3 architecture, which is poised to give AMD’s desktop CPUs a performance boost.
