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Friday, September 5, 2008

Intel to kill many Core 2's by Q1 09

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Intel plans to end the product cycle for 10 of its Core 2 based CPUs. Four of these are quad cores while six are Core 2 Duo SKUs. The first to die are two Core 2 Extreme CPUs, the QX6800 and QX6850 that actually ended their life cycle in July. The QX6850 is replaced by the super overclockable Q9650.Both the QX9770 and QX9650 will receive a product discontinuance notice in Q1 while the last of them should be selling in Q2 2009, when these two will finally reach its end of life. They will be replaced by Core i7 CPUs.The Core 2 Duo based E6850, E6750, E6550, E6540, E4600 and E4500 will receive a product discontinuance notice in Q4 08 while they will slip to its end of life in Q1 2009. The Pentium dual core E2180, E2160 and E2140 should also be reaching its end of life in Q1 2009. The last one to end its career in Q1 2009 is the Celeron dual core E1200.

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