Monday, August 8th 2011
20 Intel Processors Reach EOL in H2 2011
It is curtains for as many as 20 Intel processor models in H2 2011, according to a slide detailing the product lifecycle of Intel processors in the market. The 20 models will reach EOL (end of life) stage of their market-life. When a product is marked EOL, Intel stops taking orders for it from OEMs and channel vendors, clears outstanding orders, and stops its production. Intel will honor warranties on those products in accordance with its warranty policies.
Up for EOL are the socket LGA1366 Core i7-970, socket LGA1156 Core i7-880, Core i7-875K, Core i7-870S, Core i5-760, Core i5-750S, Core i5-655K, Core i3-530; and most socket LGA775 processor currently in the market. LGA775 models include Core 2 Quad Q9650, Q9550/Q9550S, Q9500, Q8400/Q8400S, Q8300; Core 2 Duo models E8600, E8500, and Pentium E5400. Several other products are marked PDN (product discontinuation notification), a stage that precedes EOL, which formally notifies OEMs and channel-vendors that they should place their last orders (and so they should choose quantities wisely).
Source:
DonanimHaber
Up for EOL are the socket LGA1366 Core i7-970, socket LGA1156 Core i7-880, Core i7-875K, Core i7-870S, Core i5-760, Core i5-750S, Core i5-655K, Core i3-530; and most socket LGA775 processor currently in the market. LGA775 models include Core 2 Quad Q9650, Q9550/Q9550S, Q9500, Q8400/Q8400S, Q8300; Core 2 Duo models E8600, E8500, and Pentium E5400. Several other products are marked PDN (product discontinuation notification), a stage that precedes EOL, which formally notifies OEMs and channel-vendors that they should place their last orders (and so they should choose quantities wisely).
39 Comments on 20 Intel Processors Reach EOL in H2 2011
Still, if they remove the slower one's it can only mean PC's will get more powerful overall
It's like here, i'm going to take away your fire and now you can buy one of these shiny new ovens for a lot more than you want, when you only need it to cook a sausage.
Ok bad example but you get what I mean.
You do not need a high end proccesor to play solitaire, and for that group of people intel sells celerons and Atoms, so your point is?
Think of it this way, EOL means we get new shinys like Sandy-E processors.
And if you only want a cheap slow processor you can still get them, just buy yourself a phenom LOL
Look stop twisting my words. Yes it's great that technology is moving forward, and it's great that things are getting better. I will not for one second dispute that, but the only reason any company stops selling something is to make (NOT force) people buy the new products that are better.
And you have to realise that MOST people don't even know what a CPU is, let alone know the difference here. It's all a marketing strategy that makes people buy technology at the same or greater profits for the company selling them.
I'm not bashing Intel here, it's common practice, and it works because people need computers, or whatever. If you don't see that this is a business decision in order to keep profit margins and not a decision to reflect the needs of the consumer then you don't know much about business.
It's common practice, it works, and it does so because businesses exist solely to make money. Nothing wrong with that, just don't be confusing them with looking out for your best interests.
Fact most CPUs today far excel what people need them to do. And take into account that (pulling a number out of my ass here) 90% of people don't care as long it works, it lets them check their emails, read the news, play solitaire. It's the businesses like Intel that are driving this market forward not the consumers demanding more from the business. That's just an observation, again nothing really wrong with that.
Intel is right to kill off all of these old processors for 2 reasons.
#1 They've got WAY too many models on the market right now. They have their differences, but the last thing you want to do in this industry is confuse people.
#2 They've simply been out too long. Someone with minimal knowledge of Intel processors will see C2D as old. Uninformed users don't frequent benchmarking sights. It's enough for them to have been seeing C2D for years, and this will convince them that it's under powered.
Furthermore "core" is a buzzword now. It's a lot like the number of cylinders in a car engine. Core 2 being right in the name sounds wimpy when compared with processors that have 8 cores coming out soon.
why wouldn't intel eol nehalem then? and the others needed to be eol a long time ago.
eol is not equal to the cpu's not being available, it simply states that intel will stop selling them.
if buying older hardware is your thing intel isn't stopping you.
but seriously arguing against an eol is like saying computers have reached their peak, stop now.
I for one do not want to see another long term deployment of marginal increases at ridiculous cost per clock increases. (aka pentium 4)
I'd much rather them move forward.
It's about time they killed of the 775 processors. They just need to get a $50 1155 processor out and they can kill of the rest.