Intel to stop shipping nearly all 300-series chipsets for Coffee Lake processors in a year

Intel to stop shipping nearly all 300-series chipsets for Coffee Lake processors in a year

In the middle of last summer, Intel announced that by June 4, 2021, it would scale back its first-generation Coffee Lake desktop processors. The company has now decided to take the corresponding step with the 300 series chipsets that debuted in 2017. Their deliveries will continue until January 2022.

The notice of the change in the status of the respective Intel chipsets is dated January 4th of this year. Demand has shifted towards other Intel components, and therefore the company no longer considers it necessary to continue supplying desktop chipsets Z390, Z370, H370, B360, B365, H310C, H310D and mobile QMS380. Customers will be able to order them until July 23 of this year inclusive, and deliveries will end on January 28 next year.

The Intel H310C and H310D chipsets deserve special attention. If the former is usually understood as a 22-nm version of the base Intel H310, which was originally produced using 14-nm technology, then Intel H310D has hardly been encountered in official documents before. It is difficult to judge its origin with certainty, but it may well turn out to be a version of Intel H310, which was produced by TSMC at the request of the processor giant.

The original Intel H310 chipset will be retained for the needs of the embedded solutions segment, it will migrate to it on January 28, 2022, along with the Intel Q370 chipset and three mobile chipsets: Intel HM370, QM370 and CM246. This will allow the Intel products listed in this paragraph to ship for many years, but in limited quantities. The reduction in the range of supplied chipsets from Intel is quite natural, because soon the 500 series solutions, designed to work with processors of the Rocket Lake-S family, should debut.