As of January 4, 2021, Intel has begun phasing out 300 series chipsets. The company recently released a Product change notification details the end-of-life timeline for its chipsets that support 8th and 9th generation Intel processors, and by the end of January 2022, chipsets will be a history of silicon. The launch in 2020 of 10th generation Intel processors and 400 series chipsets has already indicated the withdrawal for the 300 series, but it is now official.
The last time anyone can place an order for 300 Series Motherboards is July 23, 2021, with the final delivery date being January 28, 2022. This affects the Z390, Z370, H370, B365, B360, H310C desktop chipsets for consumers. and the H310D, and the QMS380 consumer mobile chipset, which is based on a now-old base socket, the LGA 1151. 8th and 9th generation Intel).
From a production point of view, this makes sense. Intel and other technology companies alike have trouble getting it the production capacity they need to keep up with demand. CPUs, GPUs and other components have been or are still affected – and with Intel playing AMD’s recovery in support of PCIe 4.0, I can understand why it wants to focus on newer improvements and be more advanced in its production approach. . The 400 series chipsets are based on the new LGA 1200 socket, which supports the PCIe 4.0 standard that Intel intends to incorporate with 11th generation desktop processors.
But it makes things difficult for consumers who want to stay with Intel. I have written about it before, but chipset compatibility is one of the biggest things AMD has on Intel right now. Depending on the processor, AMD (non-APU) processors run on several generations of motherboards. The Ryzen 2000 series works with the 300, 400 and 500 series chipsets, both Ryzen 3000 and The 5000 series works with 400 and 500 series chipsets. It is also worth noting that the 3000 series AMD Ryzen APUs work with the 300, 400 and 500 series chipsets.
Some previous rumors have shown that AMD will launch a 600 series chipset before the end of 2020, but this obviously did not happen – and I will be surprised if AMD announces a new chipset at CES. The 500 Series motherboards support PCIe 4.0 and have AMD’s built-in BIOS smart access memory (SAM) to work with new Radeon graphics cards. (However, SAM is not owned by AMD. Nvidia is currently working on a update similar to its RTX 30 series cards.)
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At the hardware level, there seems to be no reason for AMD to launch another new chipset. AMD has kept its promise to support the AM4 socket until 2020 and looks set to continue to do so until 2021, as motherboard manufacturers continue to release BIOS updates for 400 series motherboards to worked with 5000 series processors. The next versions of the AMD chipset could have a completely new socket, which wouldn’t be so bad considering how many generations of CPUs were left on the AM4 – and it didn’t announce any end-of-life plans for its chipsets.
Instead, Intel launched a new chipset and / or socket every one or two generations. In the case of the 7th and 8th generation processors, the company released an update to the LGA 1151 socket that made version 2 incompatible with the 7th and 6th generation processors, so anyone can upgrade to a Core i-8000-whatever would have been at the time needed to get a new motherboard. This was near the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, depending on when each processor launched exactly.
In 2020, Intel released the 1200 socket, which would require anyone interested in upgrading from a ninth-generation processor or earlier to purchase a new motherboard. Not only that, Intel it discontinued its 8th generation processors in June 2020. And while AMD has discontinued its Ryzen 1000 and Ryzen 2000 at this time (or rather I assume it has discontinued the 2000 series, since there is no longer an option to buy any of these processors directly from at AMD on its website), if you still have one of these chips, you can easily find a motherboard that works with them.
Intel CPUs, sockets, and chipsets have not been transferred from gender to gender in the same way that AMD designed its products – and now that Intel has begun the EOL process for 300 series chipsets, consumers and laptop manufacturers will also be forced to adopt at least 10th-generation Intel processors by July 2021, which means great budget laptops like Acer Nitro 5 with a 9th generation processor it could soon be harder to find or it could become virtually non-existent. Intel has not released any EOL plans for its 9th generation processors, or even the LGA 1151 socket, but the 300 series chipsets were the last to have the 1151 socket – and the 1151 socket is required for a 9th generation processor. When you pair the end of the 300 series since 8th generation Intel processors will be discontinued … this could be the last step before Intel finally decides to remove the 1151 socket and the 9th generation processors permanently.
If you are a DIY DIY, planning to upgrade your PC has become a little more difficult. At this point, if you’re still trying to find a 9th-generation processor, it’s probably best to wait at least after CES, when Intel is likely to reveal more information about 11th-generation processors .