14 DAY TRIAL // As more and more central processing units are coming on the market, hardware manufacturing companies like Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are constantly removing old and obsolete product lines in order to make room in inventories for the new range of products. After Intel recently announced its intentions to send several lines of desktop processing units in the end of life bin, now it is the turn of the mobile processing units to lose some older processors.
According to the news site techarp, Intel plans to discontinue several mobile central processing units from the Core 2 Duo, Core Duo, Core Solo and Celeron M product families. When Intel announced their latest product discontinuation decision for the desktop processing units, the manufacturing company also said that all pending orders will be fulfilled and this may very well happen too with the currently declared end of life mobile products.
Taking this fact into account, it is very probable that users may find mobile computing systems equipped with a processor from the officially discontinued product lines well into the next year, until all stocks are cleared.
Intel is expected to officially discontinue and declare end of life, EOL for short, for no less than five standard models and two low voltage versions of the Core 2 Duo mobile processor as well as two models of low voltage type from the Intel Core Duo and Intel Core Solo product lines.
As the performance level and the ratio between price, performance and power consumption footprint is getting very low for the few remaining Intel Celeron M processors, they will be the ones most hit by the discontinuation decision and all of them will be sent to the end of life bin in March 2008.
Even processors from the current top of the line Intel Core 2 Duo product range will be declared as end of life units in March 2008 and affected by this move are the T5500, T5600, T7200, T7400 and T7600 models, leaving only a few, high end processing units in the entire product line.