Intel Kills Lakefield
INTEL ISSUES PRODUCT CHANGE notifications regularly, listing chips due to be discontinued. Its last list of 24 included some surprisingly recent silicon, including tenth-generation Comet Lake and Ice Lake chips, as well as 11th-gen Lakefield chips, which will all disappear by spring 2022. Losing Ice Lake so early has to be disappointing for Intel; it’s relatively new, but never performed that well. However, the real surprise is the dumping of Lakefield—it was only launched in June 2020. As Intel prosaically put it, “Market demand for the products listed has shifted to other Intel products.” Translation: People didn’t want to buy them. It added that “they demonstrated the potential of hybrid x86 CPU and new packaging technology.”