Intel regularly modifies its customer-oriented product range. This time, the company is announcing, via a PCN (Product Change Notification), the end of boxed versions of its 13th gen Core i series. However, before they disappear from the shelves, we’ll have to wait a few months or even a few years!
Instead, you’ll be able to buy OEM, Tray or Bulk versions, i.e. the bare CPU in a small plastic cover. In the end, you don’t lose much, since these CPUs arrive without a heatsink. At the same time, with TDPs of 125W, it’s not a cooler that’s going to cool anything down!
This decision is hardly surprising, and we understand Intel’s decision to concentrate on its fourteenth generation. What’s more, note that the same fate is in store for the fourteenth generation when Arrow Lake arrives on the market. Date? Probably in the first quarter of 2025!
