By Matt Hanson
Intel has revealed it’s discontinuing its quad-core Kaby Lake-X processors, a mere 11 months after they were first announced, with the company explaining its plans for the chips’ EOL (end of life) status.
The Intel Kaby Lake-X Core i7-7740X and Core i5-7640X were designed for the enthusiast market, with the chips capable of some incredibly impressive overclocking performance, but it appears that the response to them was muted, with poor sales being cited as the reason for the discontinuation.
It didn’t help that the Kaby Lake-X lineup was outshone by the Skylake-X processors, as they offered fewer PCIe lanes, ‘only’ four cores and support for just dual channel memory.
With Intel now moving to the X399 platform, it looks like it there won’t be support for quad-core processors using the HEDT platform.
In a product change notification document made by Intel, the company states that PC makers and component resellers will need to order the processors by November 30, 2018, with the final shipment of Kaby Lake-X chips pencilled in for May 31, 2019. So, if you want to get a Kaby Lake-X processor, you have around a year left to buy them.
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Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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