According to the product change notification (PCN) officially released by Intel, it announced the discontinuation plan of the second-generation Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) processor.
Intel has now launched the fourth generation of Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors, Cascade Lake was released in 2019, and the existing products are separated by 2 generations.
Intel launched Cascade Lake in 2019 to replace Skylake processors, built on a 14nm process, including Cascade Lake-X for HEDT (High-End Desktop), Cascade Lake-W for workstations, and Cascade Lake-SP and Cascade Lake-SP for servers. Cascade Lake-SP and Cascade Lake-AP for servers.
Intel ceased production of the Cascade Lake-X and Cascade Lake-W families in July of this year, and is now further ceasing production of the second generation of Cascade Lake processors.
Looking back at the development of Cascade Lake, it can be described as “ill-fated”. On the one hand, it was pressured by AMD’s 7nm EPYC Rome chip, and on the other hand, this series of CPUs was always in the 14nm stage, forcing it to discontinue some SKUs and lower the price.
In a PCN document, Intel announced that 68 Cascade Lake processors are being discontinued, and that customers who still need the processors will need to submit orders by April 26, 2024 to their local Intel representative.
Intel has committed to shipping the last orders for the Cascade Lake Xeon by October 23, 2026, so it won’t completely disappear from shelves in the next few years.
