https://wccftech.com/exclusive-intels-highly-anticipated-rocket-lake-cpus-will-land-in-march-2021-and-be-backwards-compatible-with-z490-motherboards/ > A featured image for Intel Rocket Lake S > Intel has been planning a major update to its x86 microarchitecture with Rocket Lake and we have an update for our readers. While Intel confirmed a few weeks ago that they are planning to roll out the family sometime in 1h 2021, I have confirmation that the Rocket series of CPUs will be landing in March 2021 and whats more - they will be backwards compatible with Z490 motherboards (likely through a bios update).