Intel’s Skylake integrated graphics have reached end-of-life (EOL) status. official intel A document discovered today by Tech Power UpWhile many recognize Skylake as a 6th generation Core processor, the family is powered by a 9th generation iGPU and could benefit from a driver update, even if some serious issues were revealed. You will not be able to receive it.
However, the EOL of Skylake graphics shouldn’t be too surprising. For users of these systems, it really means little unless serious security vulnerabilities are found in the outdated drivers. Discrete graphics card users can bypass the Intel graphics driver software and disable his iGPU in the BIOS, making this his EOL news less of a worry.
Introduced in 2015, Intel’s Skylake CPUs definitely started to feel vintage when Windows 11 came out with architecture requirements for Intel 8th Gen Core or later. Last summer, we reported that Intel dropped Day-0 GPU driver support for 10th Gen and earlier CPUs. Skylake is at the bottom of the list of generations remaining in legacy support. Now that Skylake is off the legacy list, Kaby Lake chips are at the bottom of the ladder, waiting to be allocated a slice of silicon heaven.
Intel’s 7th Generation Core Kaby Lake CPUs debuted with Intel Gen 9.5 integrated graphics. Therefore, his EOL for Kaby Lake could be more difficult as the same graphics architecture survived through the 8th, 9th and 10th Gen Core processors.
The last regular iGPU driver release available for Skylake users is version 31.0.101.2115 after December 2022.This legacy driver is available heresupports various editions of Windows 10 and 11 and fully includes Skylake’s EOL notification.
As mentioned above, EOL news has little impact on users of desktop Skylake systems. However, this news and changes to Intel’s legacy drivers last summer could devalue 10th Gen Core and older systems that rely on iGPUs. And let’s not forget that Windows 11 has pushed many otherwise serviceable machines into a sort of upgrade maze. I’m not sure what the Windows 12 requirements are in terms of CPU, GPU, security, connectivity, RAM, storage, etc.
