Intel Kills Kaby Lake G, Vows To Offer Drivers For Five Years

'When Kaby Lake G debuted at CES 2018, it made a big bang. No one
expected sworn rivals Intel and AMD to collaborate on a CPU package,
marrying a 7th-gen Kaby Lake CPU with a unique AMD Radeon RX Vega GPU.
But what began with a bang ended Monday with an unceremonious memo.
From a report:

The Product Change Notification published by Intel on Monday confirmed
that pretty much every single Kaby Lake G, including the Core
i7-8706G, the Core i7-8705G, and the Core i5-8305G, would be
discontinued. Last call for orders will be on January 17, 2020, and
the final shipments are scheduled for July 31, 2020. While the end of
life of a processor isn't typically a big deal to consumers who own
them, one sticking point could have been driver support. Specifically,
Kaby Lake G drivers for the custom AMD Radeon RX Vega M graphics come
only from Intel. With a normal discrete GPU, the consumer would
download drivers from the original company, such as Nvidia or AMD.
With Kaby Lake G kaput, where does that leave Kaby Lake G-owners?
Intel said the company will follow its standard policy and provide
driver support for Kaby Lake G for five years from the launch of the
product. All told, that probably means another 3.5 years of driver
updates.'

-- source: https://slashdot.org/story/19/10/09/142229

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University of Waikato, NZ
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