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Intel today issued a notification to delist and upgrade the four low-power Pentium and Celeron processors code-named Apollo Lake because they have serious bugs that will "die" before the expected life expectancy.

The Apollo Lake series was released in September 2016. Based on the 14nm process, the new Goldment CPU architecture, 9th-gen. nuclear GPU architecture, thermal design power consumption of 6-10W, divided into desktop-oriented Pentium / Celeron J series, mobile-oriented The Pentium/Celeron N series is aimed at entry-level desktops, notebooks, and all-in-ones that require less performance and are designed to be thinner and lighter.

Intel said that four models in this batch of processors, Pentium N4200, Celeron N3350/J3355/J3455, which have problems with LPC (low pin count), RTC (real time clock), SD card interface, will lead to continuous years After use, the signal decay speed is much higher than Intel's quality standards and cannot be used any more.

Simply speaking, these processors stop running due to signal degradation before they reach the warranty period and cannot be turned on.

To this end, Intel will discontinue the depreciation of the existing B1 stepping version of the Pentium N4200, Celeron N3350/J3355/J3455, and introduce a new F1 stepping version, the model name is also changed to Pentium N4200E, Celeron N3350E/J3355E/J3455E , that is, the suffix letter E is added to the tail to show the difference.

Intel recommends that users upgrade to the new version as soon as possible, but it is not clear whether compensation or assistance will be given.

However, the same family of Pentium J4205, Celeron N3450 is not affected, at least not in Intel's announced delisting, upgrade list.

Similar problems have previously appeared on Atom C2000 series processors targeting network equipment, storage systems, and micro-servers. It is said that after 18 months of use, it will "brick" and spread to a large number of manufacturers. Intel also provided a Batch reserve.