Early last year, we reported that Intel had begun phasing out its 12th-generation Intel Alder Lake processors for laptops. A year later, Intel appears to be phasing out the processor series entirely with the announcement that it will also be phasing out desktop-class chips.
Intel’s Alder Lake processor series was launched about four years ago, so it’s not exactly a long-standing processor series, especially considering that, as we mentioned, its laptop processor series was also discontinued last year.
Intel has confirmed that this means that all processor series under that model, from Intel Core i9 models to Intel Celeron for desktops, will be discontinued, both in the boxed version and those shipped to PC OEMs for installation in pre-built computers.
For these companies, the last order for this series of processors can be made on July 25, 2026 and the last shipment will be made on January 22, 2027.
In the meantime, Intel has also confirmed that a number of Intel Xeon data center processor chips under the Sapphire Rapids Scalable CPU model will also be discontinued. Intel's announcement regarding this CPU has been known since September last year, and the last shipment date has been set for March 21, 2028.
This means that support for both
