The big picture: Intel's Meteor Lake processors will reportedly move to a new socket, forcing Alder Lake ... pins in a similar footprint means that pin density is going to be a lot higher.

Intel's next family of CPUs that drops later this year is the new 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs, but after that we have the 14th Gen ... the LGA 1700 socket in terms of pin count: 50% more ...