The Core i7 shadows outdated chips

Nov 5, 2008 07:59 GMT  ·  By

It seems that the largest chip manufacturer worldwide was pleasantly impressed by the impact the latest performance details on its Core i7 processors had on everybody. While about two weeks ago the company announced that it plans to phase out most of the Xeon based chips, a total of 31 65nm CPUs, now its objective is to get rid of even more such processors, at least this is what the latest news unveils.

A recently sent notification announced the addition of the 65nm-build 2.40GHz E4600, the 2.33GHz E6540 and E6550, the 2.66GHz E6750, and the 3.0GHz E6850 Core 2 Duo processors to the list of chips meant to take the ax. The Santa Clara based chipmaker will stop taking orders for the chips on March 6th 2009. The list of phasing out models does not include the E4700 CPU at this point in time.

The newly released notification also states that the company will be shipping the boxed versions of the Core 2 models announced above until June 5th 2009. On the other hand, the tray versions of the processors will be delivered until May 7th 2010. As many of you already know, Intel started phasing out the 65nm chips as soon as the first 45nm CPUs were put on display. Also, the chipmaker wrote the final chapter of the single core CPUs quite a while ago, and it seems that the dual core 65nm chips will share the same fate in a short while.

The reason for Intel's move is well known. The new chips provide higher performance levels and need lees power than the old ones. Besides, the technology brings a lot of improvements, and the 65nm chips become outperformed and outdated. Also, we should not forget the fact that Intel put a lot of effort in turning the ready-to-come Core i7 chip into an industry peak. The processors come with the latest Intel technology under the Nehalem architecture.