Intel Discontinuing Old CPUs To Make Room For Ivy Bridge
Intel Discontinuing Old CPUs To Make Room For Ivy Bridge
Posted 01/04/2012 at 12:18pm
| by Brad Chacos
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Time to clear the road(map)! It looks like Intel’s doing its spring cleaning a bit early this year in anticipation of Ivy Bridge’s launch. Reports say the company’s winding down production of 27 different CPUs from several product lines and sockets over the first two quarters of 2012 in order to make room for their fancy new chips.
DigiTimes reports that Intel told its partners it plans on knocking off the Pentium E6600, E550, E5700 and G960; the Celeron E3500, 450, 430 and E330; the Core Duo E7500 and E7600; the Core i3-530; the Core i5-661, 660, 670, 680, 2300, 760, 750S and 655K; and the Core i7-960, 950, 930, 870, 875K, 860S, 880S and 870S.
If any of those models still strike your fancy – and why would they, with second gen Sandy Bridge chips available? – be sure to rush out and snatch them up before they disappear for good.
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JohnP
January 04, 2012 at 11:31pm
It is surprising how well some of these older chips do in sales. Folks who don't care much about speed or graphics buys them for incremental upgrades or for troubleshooting an old, non functioning mobo. As Intel discontinues lines, the prices will only increase on EBay (amazing how much too).
Wingzero_x
January 06, 2012 at 5:47am
It is, I made a mistake of giving away (yes, for free) an AMD Athlon 64x2 4400! I never realized the demand for old processors. But, hey, the kid built a sweet system with it, and it beats sitting in a old parts box, or drilling a hole into it to make a keychain.
tekknyne
January 05, 2012 at 6:32am
Not entirely relevant, but I bought a mobile core 2 duo t6400 on ebay for $10.80 to upgrade this used laptop I just bought. Hollaaarrr! I agree, they still make a good upgrade path and those old core 2 duos are still way relevant.
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