Goodbye!, Intel Will Stop Selling Rocket Lake CPUs Starting Next Year

JAKARTA - Intel will reportedly stop selling 11th Generation Rocket Lake-S CPUs, as the final shipping date will be February 23, 2024, for the two-year-old processor series.

The 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S CPUs are built on a 14nm class process. The company also said it would phase out the 400 and 500 series chipsets for processors in the LGA1200 box.

Additionally, Intel is also recommending placing final orders on 11th Gen Core i5, Core i7, Core i9, and Xeon W series processors as appropriate, and selecting 400 and 500 series chipsets for the LGA1200 platform by August 25, 2023.

Shipments of CPUs and chipsets will ship by February 23, 2024. However, the company will keep its Rocket Lake-based Xeon E-series CPUs, but most of those processors will be discontinued next year.

The Rocket Lake series debuts in 2021 and uses a 14nm process that the company made in 2014.

Its core architecture, Cypress Cove, is a far cry from Ice Lake's laptop CPUs which use a 10nm process. This Intel decision led to the chipset being limited to 8 cores on the CPU die. Previous generations used a maximum of 10 cores.

One of the reasons the company continued to use the 14nm process was that the utilization rates in manufacturing were too extensive for Intel to switch to other processes.

The new chip still offers better performance than its predecessor in many applications, but those who need a higher core count opt ​​for an AMD Ryzen 9 3900-series CPU with 12 or 16 cores, or even a 10th Gen Intel Comet Lake processor.

In its time, Intel's Rocket Lake series also sold well by offering new Artificial Intelligence (AI) features, such as Deep Learning Boost and support for Vector Neural Network Instructions.

The 11th Gen Intel Core Rocket Lake CPUs are likely to be quickly forgotten, as Intel has since released two 10nm-based product lines for the desktop featuring a competitive microarchitecture.

But for those looking to upgrade their LGA1200 machines, Rocket Lake chips will continue to be available for a while, but not forever. This was quoted from Tom Hardware, Thursday, February 23.