The company may still change its mind, but it's very unlikely

Feb 18, 2014 14:41 GMT  ·  By

Intel's latest roadmap has revealed the ETAs (estimated times of arrival) for pretty much all its 2014-bound consumer-oriented chips and SoCs.

Since I've already covered the Merrifield and Bay Trail-M mobile processors, following the timeline that means that the Haswell is next.

And it seems that that previous rumor about the launch having been moved up to April is true.

The 20 CPUs will come out two months from now, around the same time as the Quark X1000 SoC. Intel's Series 9 motherboards will only debut in May though.

None of the April-bound Haswell chips will support DDR4, unfortunately. That will only happen later this year, in August, when the upgraded Haswell desktop line and X99 chipset will come out.

Not much reason to feel bothered really, since there are no DDR4 modules up for sale yet, and there won't be for a while.