Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake Desktop & Mobile CPUs Reach End of Life & Discontinued

Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake Desktop & Mobile CPUs Reach End of Life & Discontinued 1

On Monday, Intel published a Product Change Notification or PCN for short which marks the EOL (End-of-Life) for various 11th-Gen Tiger Lake CPUs. This includes specific i3, i5, i7, and i9 chips in the desktop and mobile segment.

The newly updated Intel PCN shows four of the company's Tiger Lake desktop CPUs, five mobile processors, and a lower-powered Xeon processor, with discontinuations ending in June 2023 (at the latest) and a final halt in shipping by January 2024. The nine products are listed below:

Core i5-11260H (mobile)

Core i5-11400H (mobile)

Core i7-11800H (mobile)

Core i9-11900H (mobile)

Core i7-11600H (mobile)

Core i9-11900KB (desktop)

Core i7-11700B (desktop)

Core i5-11500B (desktop)

Core i3-11100B (desktop)

Xeon W-11855M (workstation)

The other Xeon workstation processor, the Xeon W-11955M, will remain available until further notice.

Any of Intel's board partners can order the listed processors by June 30, 2023. After the end of June, shipping will slowly start to halt. The company lists that by April 26, 2024, the Intel Core i5-11500H, Core i7-11850H, Core i9-11950H, and Intel Xeon W-11855M processors will continue to ship. After that date, those will no longer ship. The remaining chips will have until January 26, 2024, before they will be stopped entirely from shipping.

It should be noted that this does not affect consumers directly as these processors were not readily available to the specific marketplace for end users. Some were used in small form factor systems, while others were used for OEMs and laptops. Currently, the marketplace is ripe with Alder and Raptor Lake series chipsets, so starting to discontinue Tiger Lake is fitting.

The Tiger Lake 11th Gen Desktop CPUs were based on the 10nm SuperFin architecture and featured Willow Cove cores on Rocket Lake chips. The Tiger Lake B-Series desktop processors supported up to 128 GB DDR4-3200 memory and offered Intel Iris Xe onboard graphics. As we mentioned before, the desktop Tiger Lake chips were typically used, even today, in small form factor computers (NUC models and various Mini PCs). They were much less potent than today's desktop and mobile processors, so they are commonly seen in that niche marketplace.

For those interested in reading the PCN in full, please refer to this link which will open the download link to the published PDF file.

News Sources: TechPowerUP, Tom's Hardware