In my recent review of the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, I said that if you want to buy a powerful laptop, my recommendation is to just wait for the arrival of Intel's Nova Lake-S processor chips because of the newer LGA 1954 motherboard support, and it is expected to last longer than the LGA 1851 which will be buried after the launch of the Arrow Lake Refresh chip series.
However, if you don't really care about the most powerful performance and just want to build a computer that doesn't lag and can be used for a variety of productivity and leisure purposes, Intel has announced that they will continue to support the LGA 1700 motherboard platform that uses the Intel Raptor Lake processor series, which consists of the 13th and 14th generation Intel Core processor chips.
This is because the platform, along with these Intel processor chips, is the only active platform that supports the use of DDR4 memory which is still widely sold in the market at prices that are not as high as the DDR5 memory offerings. In fact, Intel expects the LGA 1700 platform to be supported for the next few years, while waiting for DDR5 memory component prices to drop and stabilize.
This announcement, made by Robert Hallock, VP and General Manager of the Enthusiast Channel at Intel, seems to be in line with our previous report that Intel is expected to introduce the Raptor Lake Next series of processors, which are updates to the existing Raptor Lake series of processors built using the 10nm process.
It also somewhat confirms that DDR5 RAM components will remain expensive for now, at least until DDR6 memory begins to be mass-produced in the next two to three years.
Meanwhile, AMD has also started re-introducing the AMD Ryzen 7 5800 X3D series of processors to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the processor chip, but it is also their most powerful offering that also uses DDR4 memory.
These processor chip manufacturing companies are aware that building your own PC today with modern components such as DDR5 memory and graphics cards using GDDR7 memory is very expensive, so the return of components that support slightly older technologies is hoped to help buyers build their computers.
