Intel’s kills off 11th-gen Rocket Lake CPUs you shouldn’t buy anyway
Intel said in February that it’s closing the book on its 11th-gen Core chips, code-named ‘Rocket Lake’. The company issued an end-of life notice that covers the entire Rocket Lake chip line-up as well as its supporting chipsets. Intel said that it will accept orders for the chips up until 25 August, shipping them through February 2024, so vendors and retailers will have a while to stock up if desired. In reality, though, the Rocket Lake architecture won’t be particularly missed. As our original review of Rocket Lake pointed out, Intel’s 11th-gen desktop processor was the last vestige of the company’s 14nm manufacturing process, which at that time had endured seven whole years of Intel designs. The 11th-gen mobile processors, however, had since migrated to Intel’s 10nm process technology. The…
