Pentium 4 dies in February 2007

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Net burst goes to heaven

WE NOTICED that Intel plans to finally get rid of the old Pentium 4 marchitecture and all that is based on it. It likes the facts that Pentium M and Conroe are great and wants to cut the old roots.


Intel Celeron D including 350, 345 and 310 will finish its life cycle as soon as September. You have some fifteen days to order one. The Celeron D 340, 330, 325, 320 and 315 will continue their existence until Q1 2007 and then will finally retire.

Intel Pentium 4 524, 670, 660, 650, 640 and 630 will end its life in February 2007. Intel's target notification date for 524 CPU is December 2006 and for the rest of the 2MB cache CPUs it's Q1 2007.

Intel Pentium D the first of dual cores including 830, 840, 930 and 940 have the target notification date as early as August and its end of life scheduled for October. Pentium D 805 will live until December 2006.

Intel Pentium 4 XE processor (3.73GHz) and 840's target notification date is set for August and these two CPU's have the end of life scheduled for October 2006. The last of the Extreme edition CPUs 965 and 955 have the target notification date set for November and will reach the end of their short life in January 2007. After Q1 2007 it, there will only be Pentium M, Conroe based marchitecture so rest in peace Net Burst as you served us well from 1.4 GHz Pentium 4 and socket 423 till the last breath. We know you lost your breath a while ago with Prescott onward but we forgive you.

The INQuirer