Friday, October 11th 2019
Intel Discontinues Almost the Entire 7th Generation Core Desktop Processor Series
Intel late Thursday, through a product change notification, announced the discontinuation of almost its entire 7th generation Core "Kaby Lake" desktop processor series. This includes most chips across the Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Pentium, and Celeron desktop chips based on the 14 nm+ "Kaby Lake-S" silicon, across both retail boxed and tray packages. These chips formed Intel's main product lineup through 2017, and had to be quickly succeeded by the 8th generation "Coffee Lake" with the advent of AMD Ryzen. To clear out its inventory, Intel will accept discontinuance orders for these chips until April 2020. A discontinuance order can only be placed by a customer who has previously ordered these exact chips. The last of these orders will be shipped out by October 2020.
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26 Comments on Intel Discontinues Almost the Entire 7th Generation Core Desktop Processor Series
AMD was so much better at that time. Good ol athlon 64.
I dragged my DDR3 with me from my FX series, so it was much cheaper than getting a DDR4 and Ryzen.
But this is still not nearly as funny as the old 80386 CPUs etc., where "production" stopped in 2007!
And in case you wonder why on earth they would continue shipping these, I'll give you a hint: embedded stuff.
But the reason why x86 CPUs are rarely used for these kinds of applications any more is the need for low-power devices, not anything to do with quality ;)
About the ram...
It is stock 1.5V 1866 CL9 DDR3 that does 2100 CL10 with 1.55V and it benches within the noise of a 7700K with DDR4 2400. If it was shackled to 1333 or 1600, it would be definitely handicapped by the 3. I may not get the raw bandwidth but I have better latency, so it's a bit of a trade off. It does absolutely crush my 4790 and it's 1333 JEDEC spec DDR3 in benches, so if I paired it with that then yes. I wish I had some of that volt hungry DDR3 2400 CL11 like my friend. That's some fast ram, but I'd need a better board, as mine doesn't like going past 2200.
Also low latency DDR4 still ain't cheap. If I went DDR4 I'd have to upgrade from the 32GB I have now, to 64GB, because why side-grade?