On Tuesday, Intel informed partners that the company’s 11th Generation Rocket Lake-S CPUs would be discontinued, with the last shipment date set for February 23, 2024. The 11th Generation Core Intel Rocket Lake-S processors were built on the 14nm process, signalling the end of all client CPUs in the core family that used that node. Partners will have until August 25, 2023, to place orders for the Rocket Lake-S CPUs from Intel before the company stops accepting new orders.
Intel has decided to discontinue production of the Xeon W-1300 processors.
The Rocket Lake series debuted in 2021 and used the company’s 14nm process, which it established in 2014. The Cypress Cove core architecture was very different from the Ice Lake laptop CPUs, which used the 10nm process. Because of Intel’s decision, the chipset was limited to eight cores on the CPU die. The previous generation’s dies could only hold a maximum of ten cores.
One reason Intel continued to use the 14nm process was that the level of utilisation in manufacturing was too high for the company to switch to another process. Intel’s Rocket Lake series was also ahead of its time, with new artificial intelligence features like Intel’s Deep Learning Boost and support for Vector Neural Network Instructions.
The Intel Corporation notification listed twenty-six processors, including the Intel Core i9-11900K, the series’ flagship processor, and the same power as the Intel Xeon W-1390P but with features required for workstations and enterprises. Intel has discontinued the Rocket Lake processors, which include the i5, i7, and i9 models, as well as the workstation Xeon W models.
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