Funky fresh hardware sports a price tag that makes my eyes water—so some companies are considering firing up production on older product lines again. Rumours suggest that Intel is next.
Apparently, Intel plans to increase supply of its 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th generation CPUs—that’s everything from 2020’s Comet Lake up to the latest 2023 iteration of Raptor Lake. This news comes via a machine translation of Chinese-language outlet IT Home, which in turn spotted the scoop on ChannelGate, the public WeChat account of rumour and leak site BoBantang.
It doesn’t hurt to keep a pinch of salt at the ready for hardware rumours like this, but it also wouldn’t be a totally unsurprising move from Intel. For instance, Tom’s Hardware reported during this year’s Computex that Intel is already planning to release another iteration of its Raptor Lake chip next year. The company has also committed to making older CPUs ‘abundantly available’ and keeping DDR4 support alive.
Speaking of that last-gen support, a number of motherboard and memory module manufacturers at Computex also confirmed to Tom’s Hardware that they were considering shifting production back to DDR4 platforms.