Intel Z399 motherboards set to replace X299 as AMD stunts Intel naming yet again

The name for Intel’s X299 platform successor has been leaked, with Z399 motherboards set to carry the torch for Intel’s HEDT (high-end desktop) platform with a refreshed generation of Skylake-X CPUs. The name wasn't Intel's first choice, however. Following X299 last year, X399 would've been the ideal name for the next-gen HEDT chips, but where have I heard that before? The red team swooped in and claimed the X399 nomenclature for its own TR4 socket Threadripper-compatible motherboards back in August 2017. These motherboards also serve AMD’s recently released Threadripper 2 CPUs, too. Annoying Intel first and foremost, the move also allowed AMD to piggyback the branding of its largest competitor, and, potentially, also causing some needless customer confusion. Instead of ditching the whole naming scheme, however, Intel has kept to numerical increments between generations - albeit with the prefix previously reserved for the best boards in the mainstream Core lineup. The Z399 motherboard will therefore be the successor to the X299 ‘Basin Falls’ HEDT platform, although not much else is certain about this new generation.

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