Dell has already provided the latest chipset driver for Intel Alder Lake through their support team. He also lists a few unknowns, such as several W chipsets for the professional environment as well as an X699, which is fueling rumors of a return to the high-end segment.
The AlderLake-PCH-S file contains the comprehensive portfolio of upcoming chipset solutions. PCH-S stands for the desktop solutions, which is underpinned by the entries, because mobile chipsets are not listed there. Nevertheless, the list is very long. As expected, the end customer business is led by the Z690, flanked by the H670, B660 and, in the entry-level area, the H610.
The best equipped chipsets are usually the Q series and finally the W variants. They are present in the Q670 and W680 as well as the W685. The embedded segment is also taken into account, with the E680E, Q670E and H610E spreading widely in this area.
INTEL = & quot; INTEL & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A80Desc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller – 7A80 & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A81Desc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (SuperSKU unlocked) – 7A81 & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A82Desc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (SuperSKU locked) – 7A82 & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A83Desc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (Q670) – 7A83 & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A84Desc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (Z690) – 7A84 & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A85Desc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (H670) – 7A85 & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A86Desc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (B660) – 7A86 & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A87Desc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (H610) – 7A87 & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A88Desc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (W680) – 7A88 & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A89Desc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (X699) – 7A89 & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A8ADesc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (W685) – 7A8A & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A8BDesc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (SuperSKU Locked) – 7A8B & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A8CDesc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller – 7A8C & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A8DDesc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller – 7A8D & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A8EDesc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller – 7A8E & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A8FDesc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller – 7A8F & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A90Desc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (R680E) – 7A90 & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A91Desc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (Q670E) – 7A91 & quot; PCI VEN_8086 & DEV_7A92Desc = & quot; Intel (R) LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (H610E) – 7A92 & quot;
The most interesting entry is probably the one about the X699. Accordingly, the upcoming and suspected high-end CPU, to which the X chipset series always belongs on the mainboard, will at heart use the same chip as the probably best-equipped mainstream desktop mainboard. This is not an absolute novelty, the X299 as the last solution of its kind was, for example, actually just a renamed Z170/270 chipset with the same feature set, which Intel anyway neutered according to market segment or completely released.
In the end, the entry fuels rumors that Intel could bring Sapphire Rapids to the desktop. The coming months and ultimately the year 2022 will reveal whether in the end as a full expansion with 56 cores and eight-channel memory interface, or perhaps as a half version with only two tiles and consequently quad-channel RAM. As part of Architecture Day 2021 this week, Intel did not want to answer an explicit request as to whether Intel could cut Sapphire Rapids in half with the new P-Cores for other markets, for example.