14 DAY TRIAL // Product change notifications have been coming in from Intel, which means that some CPUs are going to cease being manufactured soon.
As of April 16, 2013, the Santa Clara, California-based CPU maker will stop shipping the Celeron P4600 (2.0 GHz), the Core i3-370M (2.4 GHz), Core i3-390M (2.6 GHz), Pentium P6100 (2.0 GHz), Pentium P6200 (2.13 GHz) and the Pentium P6300 (2.2 GHz).
Meanwhile, customers can keep making orders, but the ability to cancel them will be gone starting October 16, 2012.
Intel says that a “shift in market demand” is to blame for this course of action.
Truth be told, we aren't surprised that it is trimming its product list, especially now that there are more advanced alternatives with comparable prices.
It is similar to the discontinuance of Several Core and Xeon CPUs that was announced last month.