{"id":298350,"date":"2019-03-06T10:04:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T08:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=298350"},"modified":"2019-03-06T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T08:05:06","slug":"intel-officially-retires-all-6th-gen-processors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/298350-intel-officially-retires-all-6th-gen-processors.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel officially retires all 6th-gen processors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has released a <a href=\"http:\/\/qdms.intel.com\/dm\/i.aspx\/EED3D500-FB5C-47A2-82E1-BF8DF2E0EF11\/PCN116799-00.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>product change notification document<\/strong><\/a> announcing the retirement of all Intel 6th-generation Skylake desktop processors.<\/p>\n<p>The chip manufacturer had already discontinued a number of desktop CPUs two years ago, but it has now categorised the entire generation as end-of-life.<\/p>\n<p>OEMs have up until 27 September to place their last orders for the processors, with the final shipment date being 6 March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement resulted in the official retirement of 22 Skylake processors, ranging from Celeron and Pentium chips up to Core i7 CPUs.<\/p>\n<p>Intel has already rolled out its 9th-generation processors which feature a higher number of cores and greatly-improved processing capabilities compared to previous generations, although many still use the same LGA 1151 socket used by the company&#8217;s 6th-generation CPUs.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/298294-the-maker-of-gorilla-glass-is-working-on-foldable-displays.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The maker of Gorilla Glass is working on foldable displays<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has released a product change notification document announcing the retirement of all Intel 6th-generation Skylake desktop processors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":134270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57816,45450,131,31934],"class_list":["post-298350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-6th-generation","tag-core-i7","tag-intel","tag-skylake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}