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As of January 4, 2021, Intel has started phasing out its 300-series chipsets. The company recently published a Product Change Notification detailing the end-of-life timeline for its chipsets that supports 8th and 9th generation Intel processors, and by the end of January 2022, the chipsets will be silicon history. The 2020 release of Intel’s 10th-gen CPUs and 400-series chipsets already spelled out retirement for the 300-series, but now it’s official.
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The last date anyone can place an order for 300-series motherboards is July 23, 2021, with the final shipment date being January 28, 2022. This affects consumer desktop chipsets Z390, Z370, H370, B365, B360, H310C, and H310D, and consumer mobile chipset QMS380, which are based on a now old motherboard socket, the LGA 1151. (The Q370 chipset wasn’t listed, but that’s a business-focused chipset that supports vPro versions of 8th and 9th-gen Intel processors.)
Intel sounds the death knell for its 9th-gen Core chips
You ll have until the end of 2021 to receive shipments of 9th-gen Core chips, though orders will be cut off much sooner. Credit: Mark Hachman / IDG
Intel has formally given notice that its 9th-generation “Coffee Lake Refresh” desktop processors will be discontinued, ending the career of a family of chips led by the powerful Core i9-9900K.
On Dec. 7, Intel issued Product Change Notification 117911-00 (PDF), an end-of-life notification for dozens of Intel 9th-generation processors. Those include everything from the boxed Intel Core i9-9900K to the Core i7- and i9-9900KF, and many more. The PCN ends sales of all of Intel’s processors from that generation, though they’ll still be in the sale pipeline for some time. Intel’s end-of-life procedure will take place over the coming year, with final shipments ending next December. However, customers won’t be able to buy them after June, 2021, and there’s a