09-12-2019, 07:45 AM
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-...40378.html
Quote:We've never seen a PCN pulled from Intel's site, so we followed up with the company to investigate. Intel tells us it posted the PCN in error, and the new version has no reference to an LPC bus degradation issue.
Apparently the Apollo Lake Pentium and Celeron chips do not suffer from LPC bus degradation.
Here you can see the new PCN (PDF) posted to Intel's site this morning. The new PCN clarifies the stepping change, with an obvious emphasis on assuring the chips are in fact reliable. But it doesn't answer the question of why the change is being made.
However, the change says "Customers that do not need Intel IOTG Long Life Product Availability" can continue to purchase the older chips. Instead, the new chips are positioned for long life availability.