The announcement doesn't affect hardware giveaways for the Sabre Raven. It's limited to the Intel Optane SSD promotion and AMD R9/R7 GPU promotion where anyone could go out and buy the hardware to get a code (at the time).
Edit: Although it's possible DaPoets used a code from the SSD promotion, I find it more likely that this code came from CIG specifically for the giveaway... I'll try to remember to ask him the next time I run into him at a Bar Citizen/CitizenCon.
Edit2: Nah, it's totally possible that the code there did originate from the SSD promotion. That being said, this announcement doesn't prevent CIG from generating new codes and renewing the promotion with Intel in a different way.