Intel Confirms March 30 for Rocket Lake-S Launch | TechPowerUp
 
Intel in a statement to Hardwareluxx has confirmed that the release date for the company's next-gen CPU family, codenamed Rocket Lake-S, will indeed see a global launch come March 30th. The 11000 family of CPUs is already being sold on Germany, however, via etailer Mindfactory.de, who apparently jumped the gun on the actual availability of said CPUs. Mindfactory only ships within Germany, meaning that that country is actually the sole current field for Intel's latest-gen CPUs. The etailer says that they have the right to sell the CPUs, and stands by its decision, which likely means that their supplier failed to convey the proper NDAs and launch dates when selling - or so we're led to believe. That's the reason why benchmarks of Intel's 11000-series are already in the wild - even for currently unannounced CPUs, such as the Core i7-11700K.

WCCFTech over the weekend got their hands on the full table for Intel's upcoming Core i9 and Core i7 products (at least those available at launch). Mainstream CPUs on the Core i5 family and below weren't listed, however. It remains to be seen whether the previously speculated March 15th launch date will actually be the official announcement date from Intel, of if something else is afoot for that particular day of March.
 
I'm sure a lot of Intel gaming enthusiasts are looking forward to this. Supplies of the processors will probably be larger than what AMD is currently able to provide. 
 
 

They need to drop the price if they're not going above 8 cores.

castrator86
They need to drop the price if they're not going above 8 cores.

They do, but you know Intel won't. 

And looking at specs... i see zero reason to pay for an 1190 variant for any reason over the 1170K...