Intel announces retirement for Lakefield CPUs one year after introduction

Intel has announced the end of the two Lakefield SoCs the company introduced last year. Companies can still order the chips until October. Deliveries will stop in April next year. The Comet Lake-U and Ice Lake-U series are also going out.

The Lakefield CPUs were Intel’s first processors with a big.Little design. These had a single, fast Sunny Cove core and four frugal Tremont cores. In addition, the socs had a Gen11 GPU. In the Lakefield series, Intel released a Core i5-L16G7 and a Core i3-L13G4. Both socks are now out of production.

With the Lakefield chips, Intel aimed at the market for energy-efficient devices that do not require much processing power. However, the processors turned out not to be very popular among laptop and tablet manufacturers. The Lakefield chips appeared in devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Book S and the ThinkPad X1 Fold. The Microsoft Surface Neo tablet should also have been equipped with it. Intel is expected to announce Alder Lake this year, with processors that will also have a big.Little design.

Also Comet Lake-U- and Ice Lake-U processors are going out of production. Most of these processors get the same deadlines as the two Lakefield CPUs. Only the i7-10810U, -10610U, i5-10310U and Celeron 5205U will be shipped a little longer. These chips will be delivered until the end of July. The Comet Lake and Ice Lake CPUs are slightly older than the Lakefield CPUs. Intel announced these chips in 2019.