"The heatsink mounting on Intel's new LGA 1200 (code name Comet Lake S) is identical to all LGA115x sockets (LGA 1150, LGA 1151, LGA 1155, LGA 1156," the company wrote on its FAQ page.

Skylake-S needs a new socket, new chipset and new motherboard. The socket is called LGA 1151 and has a single pin more than Haswell, the company’s current generation Core architecture.

LGA 1200 was designed as a replacement for the LGA 1151 (also known as Socket H4). LGA 1200 has 1200 protruding pins to make contact with the pads on the processor.

The neat thing about Kaby Lake is that it uses the same LGA 1151 socket as existing Skylake processors. In most cases a UEFI/BIOS update will be required to recognize the new CPUs.

LGA 1151 Intel Core i7-6700K Greg Mombert/Digital Trends. LGA 1151 was released 2015, ... Socket LGA 1150 is designed to accommodate the Haswell (fourth-gen Intel Core) processors.

For example, a new Ryzen 5 3600X will require an AM4 motherboard, while an Intel Core i5-9600K will need one with LGA 1151. You may like Here's everything we know so far about all five Z2 handheld ...