Intel has recently issued a new
product change notification (PCN) in which the company has announced the discontinuation of its 9th Gen Core X series 'Skylake-X' HEDT processors. The new PCH applies to all the Skylake-X processors based on the 'LGA2066' socket as well as the Xeon W-2000 series workstation processors, which also use the same socket, and are based on a similar IP. The new PCN covers the entire 9th-Gen Core-X chips including the big Core i9-9980XE. These include the boxed and tray versions of the i7-9800X, i9-9820X, i9-9900X, i9-9920X, i9-9940X, i9-9960X, i9-9980XE, and the Xeon W-2102, W-2104, W-2123, W-2125, W-2133, W-2135, W-2145, W-2155, W-2195 chips. This discontinuation doesn't come as a surprise, since Intel has already had its 10th Generation 'Cascade Lake X' chips on the market for quite some time, which includes the flagship extreme
Core i9-10980XE. All these SKUs will be slowly removed from the shelves. From January 22, 2021, Intel will no longer take any more orders for these processors.