Intel has officially announced the launch date of the 11th Gen Rocket Lake desktop CPUs. The Rocket Lake-S Desktop CPUs will be launching on the 30th of March. Intel has confirmed this date with a statement along with the recent selling of Rocket Lake processors by a German retailer.
The launch date was confirmed to Hardwareluxx by an Intel spokesperson. The CPU launch schedule is mentioned below as revealed by Hardwareluxx.
Press – Product information unveil, includes pre-order and advertising – Mar. 16th, 2021, at 08:00 AM PT time
Performance review, benchmark, sales – Mar. 30th, 2021, at 06:00 AM PT time
According to this timeline, the Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs will be announced on March 16th at 8 AM PT (Pacific Time). On this date, Intel will unveil the full information of the Rocket Lake family including CPU information, specifications, and prices. Intel will also open up pre-orders for its 11th Gen family on the same day, allowing partners and retailers to start advertising the chips officially.
The starting of CPU sales along with performance review and benchmarks, however, will be revealed 2 weeks later. The review and sales NDA ends on the 30th of March at 6 AM (Pacific Time). The Intel Spokesperson also gave a statement regarding the selling of the 11th gen processors before the release date.
We take our embargo agreements seriously. We are aware of a retailer selling unreleased products and are following up as appropriate.
We cannot comment on particular actions taken by retailers. We have ongoing discussions with partners which are confidential as part of our policy. We take our embargo agreements seriously and are following up as appropriate.
The sales embargo for 11th Gen Desktop processors (Rocket Lake S) is March 30, 2021 at 6 a.m. PT / 9 a.m. ET.
We will have to wait and see how the 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs stack up against the AMD Ryzen 5000 series however we did see some leaked and unofficial benchmarks before. You can check them out here and here.
