Intel stops production Core i7-8700K and other Coffee Lake processors

Intel will stop manufacturing some of its Coffee Lake processors. These include the Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8600K. The company states that the market demand for CPUs has shifted to ‘other Intel products’.

Intel announces the discontinuation of production in a Product Change Notification. In it, the manufacturer announces that both the desktop CPUs from the eighth generation and some mobile processors will receive an end-of-life status from 1 June. Intel will take orders for these CPUs until December 18. The last batch of these products will be shipped on June 4, 2021.

In total, this concerns 31 desktop processors and 3 mobile CPUs, including boxed and tray variants of the Core i7-8700K and i5-8600K. Some Pentium Gold and Celeron CPUs will also receive an end-of-life status. Intel’s eighth-generation Core processors came on the market in October 2017, about half a year after competitor AMD released its first Ryzen CPUs. Intel cites the reason that market demand for these products has shifted to other products of the company. The chip manufacturer released its tenth generation Core CPUs in May 2020, in the form of Comet Lake-S.

Earlier this week, Intel also announced that it was discontinuing twelve-sided specialty packaging for the Core i9-9900K, Anandtech writes. From now on, this CPU will be delivered in a standard, square packaging. The processor with specialty packaging can be ordered until June 26 and the last batch will be shipped on July 10.

A list of CPUs reaching eol status and the packaging of the 9900K