Intel surprises discontinues 13th generation Core chips to assemble at home

Consumers looking for a new processor to build their PC at home should keep an eye on the changes on the shelves of their trusted store, because boxed 13th generation Intel Core processors will soon disappear from the market. The news, which comes to light thanks to AnandTechwas communicated last month to the company's partners through a notification indicating that the distribution of these chips in their individual box format will cease at the end of June.

While the fact that Intel removes an “old” processor from circulation is hardly new, it is unusual for it to retire the generation previous to the current one without further qualms. Typically, this hardware is still on sale as a budget option for consumers who don't need or can afford a newer chip.

This curious situation implies that the new affordable option for building a home PC will be the 12th generation Alder Lake processors, which maintain their distribution unchanged with logically more advantageous prices than the current Raptor Lake Refresh.

It should be noted that the difference in performance between Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh is quite small, mainly providing improvements related to the support of new hardware such as LPDDR5(X) memories, WiFi7 and PCIe 4.0 SSD units with up to 8 lanes. It therefore makes sense that Intel wanted to better mark the differences within the catalog and reorganize its production capacity more completely.

People who were thinking of building a new PC with an Intel processor now have a golden opportunity, since the abandonment of Raptor Lake as a chip for sale to the final consumer will possibly imply the need to eliminate inventory, and therefore, the appearance of discounts .