Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11/14/intel_eols_pentium_celeron_ds/
Intel has formally announced the end of the Pentium D 950 and 960 processors, company documents seen by Reg Hardware reveal. The Celeron D 315, 320, 325, 330 and 340 are all for the chop too, it seems.
The end-of-line announcement indicates the chip giant will take no more orders for the Celeron D and Pentium D processors after 9 March 2007, and any customer that orders the CPUs after 5 January 2007 won't be allowed to back out of the deal. These dates apply to both boxed and tray-packaged processors.
Intel canned a stack (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/10/intel_cans_pentium_d_830_840_930_940/) of Pentium D 8xx and 9xx processors in August, and the latest EOL anouncement will take away two of the five remaining 9xx series CPUs - the remaining chips will likely continue to be pitched at embedded applications and consumer electronics kit.
Yesterday, Intel formally unveiled (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11/14/intel_four_core/) the quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6700 ahead of next year's Core 2 Quad debut (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/18/intel_quad-core_pricing/) and, interestingly, Pentium processors based on the dual-core Core 2 Duo desktop chip (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/20/intel_pentium_desktop_roadmap/) Intel launched this past summer. ®
Intel EOLs Pentium D 820 (12 December 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/12/12/intel_eols_pentium_d_820/
Intel samples 45nm 'Penryn' (28 November 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11/28/intel_samples_penryn/
Intel said to be preparing Pentium price cuts (20 November 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11/20/intel_preps_pentium_price_cuts/
Intel preps dual-core Conroe-based Pentiums? (14 November 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11/14/intel_pentium_roadmap/
Intel readies Core 2 Duo revamp? (14 November 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11/14/intel_core2duo_roadmap/
Intel follows AMD with CPU price cuts (24 October 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/24/intel_price_cuts/
Intel EOLs 91x, 955 chipsets (12 October 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10/12/intel_eols_915_chipsets/
Intel preps Pentium, Celeron price cuts (20 September 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/20/intel_pentium_celeron_price_cuts/
Intel cans 3GHz, 3.2GHz Pentium D CPUs (10 August 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/10/intel_cans_pentium_d_830_840_930_940/
Intel cashes in ancient chips (18 May 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05/18/intel_cans_386_486_960_cpus/
Intel marks Pentium D 920 for termination (13 March 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/13/intel_eols_pentium_920/