Friday, December 18th 2020
Intel "Avengers Edition" 10th Gen Core Desktop Processors Reach End of Life (EOL)
Intel today commenced the process of discontinuation of the "Avengers Edition" SKUs of its 10th Generation Core "Comet Lake-S" desktop processors, through a product change notification (PCN). The said PCN #117894-00 mentions December 16, 2020 as a common date for all four key discontinuation milestones in the product's lifecycle, namely Product Discontinuation Support commencement, Last Product Discontinuance Order (the last opportunity for distributors to place orders from Intel for), the date for these orders to become non-cancelable and non-returnable; and the date for the last order to ship. Normally, the latter two milestones are spaced 6 months and 12 months apart from the date of the product discontinuation PCN. To put this in simpler terms—and unless the PCN doesn't have a typo with its dates—Intel is expeditiously discontinuing its 10th Gen Core "Comet Lake-S" desktop processors, marking them EOL (end of life).
Sources:
Intel, momomo_us
42 Comments on Intel "Avengers Edition" 10th Gen Core Desktop Processors Reach End of Life (EOL)
Not sorry.
Said no one ever
www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/the-show-off-your-tech-related-purchase-thread.225885/post-4407844
Edit:
Almost :slap:
Not regretting getting this CPU at all, only 100MHz slower than a 10900K with the same number of cores, for a much lower price, gaming at 4K it performs right on par with top of the line CPUs from AMD and Intel.
Edit: Would of been nice if Intel had put in the bare minimum iGPU for Rocket Lake leaving room on die for ten cores.
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Why would I buy this, to get game for free? :laugh:
That didn't last
Actually they hold their own pretty well in gaming, among the top 5 processors in gaming as a matter of fact for the 10850KA, and readily available too (unlike the competition), sure, this specific variant, the Avengers edition is EOL (it was a limited edition to begin with anyway...) but that doesn't make them any less valuable as gaming CPUs, especially when price to performance ratio is taken into consideration.
Z490 is upgrade ready for Rocket lake, and PCIE4.0 ready, so there's a clear upgrade path for the platform, so idk why these processors are looked down upon.
More seriously, I have been thinking Intel is EOL them self. I mean amd is 7 nm second gen all ready and Intel takes yet another round of 14 nm with rocket lake. By then Intel is on 10 nm, amd will be on 5 nm with zen 4. Intel is not what they used to be, the leading provider of cpu's any more.
Does it mean there won't be any "avenging" on the market anymore? This is not a world I want to live in!
Will Ryzen be the next Toledo?
Stay tuned to find out :laugh: