Intel designs new connector standard for current ATX 20 + 4 for next generations

Intel would be pulling out a new 10-pin power source design as a replacement for the 24-pin ATX connector. Intel says that the 24-pin ATX connector is a standard that has been in the market for a long time and needs a replacement, this is also because it is a design that today aims to decrease the number of cables.

The connector that we currently have in our equipment (ATX 12V 24 pins) is a standard that occupies “multi-rail”, however this new standard that Intel shows would be based on “single rail” is by this design that the number of pins that if needed, it would be reduced to less than half, since the new standard would be ATX12VO or “ATX 12V only”, leaving out the line of + 3.3V and + 5V. For the ATX 4 + 4 CPU connector this would remain the same.

Definitely a change like this would mean a great impact on our pocket, considering that we would have to change our sources and in this also the motherboard, which I see something little viable in the short term.

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It is very difficult to know what Intel is up to, the truth is to design this type of standard under everything the company is going through, it is basically to limit even more those who continue betting on Intel. Clearly such a standard means more for companies than for an end user, but it is still an expense that I don’t think is very welcome even for them.