{"id":354681,"date":"2020-06-03T07:48:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T05:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=354681"},"modified":"2020-06-03T07:49:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T05:49:36","slug":"intel-kills-off-8th-gen-desktop-cpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/354681-intel-kills-off-8th-gen-desktop-cpus.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel kills off 8th-gen desktop CPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has announced that it will discontinue its 8th-generation Coffee Lake desktop processors.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/qdms.intel.com\/dm\/i.aspx\/9FF7BEE0-EDF3-44EE-A55C-EDC6E32DE3D8\/PCN117617-00.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Product Change Notification (PCN) document<\/strong><\/a> issued on 3 June 2020, Intel stated that its 8th-generation Celeron, Core, and Pentium desktop CPUs would reach end of life this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Intel&#8217;s timeline, the processors will no longer be available to order after the last product discontinuance order date, which is slated for 18 December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Market demand for the products &#8230; has shifted to other Intel products,&#8221; Intel said in the PCN document.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The products identified in this notification will be discontinued and unavailable for additional orders after the &#8216;Last Product Discontinuance Order Date&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After 18 December 2020, orders for Intel 8th-generation processors will no longer be able to be cancelled or returned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this date, a snapshot will be taken of all remaining backlog and\/or assurance and this quantity will become non-cancellable,&#8221; Intel said.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of discontinued processors is below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel Celeron G4900<\/li>\n<li>Intel Celeron G4920<\/li>\n<li>Intel Pentium Gold G5400<\/li>\n<li>Intel Pentium Gold G5500<\/li>\n<li>Intel Pentium Gold G5500T<\/li>\n<li>Intel Pentium Gold G5600<\/li>\n<li>Intel Pentium Gold G5600F<\/li>\n<li>Intel Pentium Gold G5600T<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i3-8100<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i3-8100B<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i3-8300<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i3-8350K<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i5-8400<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i5-8400T<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i5-8400B<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i5-8500<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i5-8500B<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i5-8600<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i5-8600T<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i5-8600K<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i5-8086K<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i7-8700<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i7-8700B<\/li>\n<li>Intel Core i7-8700K<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Coffee Lake<\/h3>\n<p>Intel&#8217;s 8th-generation desktop core processors &#8211; codenamed &#8220;Coffee Lake&#8221; &#8211; were launched in October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The processors used the same LGA 1151 CPU socket as previous-generation CPUs.<\/p>\n<p>However, they were not compatible with older 100- and 200-series chipsets, only with the 300-series motherboards which launched alongside them.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next year, Intel continued to launch 8th-generation desktop processors, with the Intel Core i7-8086K launching on 8 June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>This CPU was a limited-edition product built to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Intel 8086 CPU architecture.<\/p>\n<p>These chipsets were replaced by the 9th-generation Cofee Lake refresh processors at the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/354263-samsungs-new-ssd-will-eliminate-server-cpus-report.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung\u2019s new SSD will eliminate server CPUs \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has announced that it will discontinue its 8th-generation Coffee Lake desktop processors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":291188,"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":[43650,131,40396],"class_list":["post-354681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-8th-generation","tag-intel","tag-processors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354681"}],"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=354681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}