Intel retires Alder Lake mobile CPUs, excluding HX-series — 12th Gen goes EOL startin

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Includes a handful of Pentium and Celeron offerings as well.
 
In a not-so-unexpected turn of events, Intel is ending its 12th Generation Alder Lake mobile family. These include the standard Core i-series alongside select Pentium and Celeron models that leverage the Alder Lake architecture. No surprise here since Intel has employed more of the same silicon across the 13th Generation mobile, Core 100 (Series 1) and Core 200 (Series 2) families.

Intel has segmented these soon-to-be-EOL products into two categories with different discontinuance timelines. The two lists encompass the entirety of Intel's Alder Lake mobile stack, excluding the HX series, though we doubt newer laptops will feature those processors. Laptop manufacturers will likely choose the newly announced Arrow Lake-H and HX offerings based on TSMC's N3B process and employ updated Lion Cove P-cores and Skymont E-cores under the hood. The non-Ultra models target affordable devices parallel to the high-end Core Ultra series.

The retiring processors span the legacy i3, i5, i7, and i9 families and cover almost every segment, including the U-series, P-series, H-series, HK-series, and four Pentium/Celeron Gold CPUs. Though many of these processors powered budget, entry-level work, and even gaming laptops, they have slowly started to be displaced by their 13th Generation equivalents. Most of these CPUs will be available for purchase by OEMs until April 25, with the final shipments planned for October. Note that Intel has extended this deadline until January 2026 for select SKUs.

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