Any discussion of Comet Lake-S desktop processors was conspicuously absent at CES 2020, but it looks like Intel might be struggling to control the power demands of its next-generation flagship CPU. - And that could delay the launch. This comes from a report by German tech site ComputerBase, which notes that at CES, motherboard makers were unhappy with Intel because their products are ready to go, likely in line with Comet Lake's original release schedule. Intel, while actual 10th generation CPUs are not. ComputerBase maintains that Intel is having power management issues with the flagship 300-core CPU, which reportedly pushes over 9W at maximum load according to motherboard manufacturers the site has spoken to. In other words, it feels like Intel is stuck between a rock and a hard place: it has to make the Core i10900-9900K fast enough to clearly outperform the 10K in gaming, for obvious reasons. , but you find it hard to deal with power consumption when you drive harder. Of course, we must be very careful when considering this reading, as this is just grapevine speculation. That said, it's no match for Intel, not to mention Comet Lake at the big show, where it was expected to reveal the new processors. Previous rumors have indicated a Q10 Comet Lake release, or potentially an April release, and now we're apparently looking at April or perhaps even May, based on speculation on the German site. Apparently the 5-core chip is the only sticking point, not the rest of the lineup, and that's why the Comet Lake-H mobile processors for laptops, which Intel talked about at CES, have eight cores in instead of 14 (although they will exceed XNUMXGHz clock speeds, Intel noted, without revealing any actual specification details). Of course, with Comet Lake, Intel is still working to get even more out of its existing XNUMXnm process, and it's a task that's certainly gotten heavier with each refinement, so it's not really surprising to hear that it could There may be power consumption issues with the fastest chip in the range.