Earlier this week it was observed that Intel was discontinuing its Kaby Lake-G processor line. It issued a product change notification (PCN) update (PDF link) letting customers know that these collaborative products, featuring AMD GPUs, could still be ordered but only for a limited time. In brief, orders must be placed before 31st Jan 2020, and shipments will be made up to the end of July 2020.
Kaby Lake-G processors, with their on-package Radeon RX Vega graphics were a surprising announcement back in 2017. However, Intel might well feel it doesn't need the support of a third party graphics vendor as it has released its punchy Ice Lake processors with Iris Plus graphics and has plans to get stronger in the graphics department with Gen12 / Xe graphics processors arriving next year.
Now a new PCN (PDF link) has been uploaded by Intel, which gives notification of the discontinuance of almost all Kaby Lake processors - and a few remaining Skylake processors. Orders of the affected parts will not be accepted after 24th April 2020, and Intel will send out its final shipments about a year from now.
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Ending orders and production of these older parts will free up Intel's manufacturing, support and admin to concentrate on newer lines. The freed-up resources should enable Intel to increase shipments of newer parts, like 8th and 9th gen Coffee Lake processors which still use its 14nm tech.
