Intel Prepares to Stop Making First-Generation Core CPUs

As Intel keep launching new CPUs and preparing others, older chips are, naturally, phasing out of the picture, as will soon happen with the first-generation Core central processing units.

Some users may be aware of the fact that, not long ago, some CPUs got cheaper as new ones made their appearance.

Verily, it was even reported that the Sandy Bridge-E line would start to show up at some point during the month of November.

Apparently, as one would no doubt be unsurprised to learn, some older chips, though perhaps not as old as other were when their own time came, will disappear from the official sales lists soon enough.

The processors in question are from the previous generation of Core units, the ones compatible with the LGA 1156 socket.

As reports have it, there are four models scheduled to leave the market and make room for newer ones.

All of them are of the quad-core variety and should continue to be up for order until March 30 of next year (2012).

For those that want the exact monikers, the chips in question are Core i5-750S (a base clock speed of 2.4 GHz), the Core i7-860S (2.53 GHz), the Core i7-870S (2.66 GHz) and the Core i7-880 (3.06 GHz).

The boxed versions will keep shipping until supply is exhausted, once manufacturing is cut off.

As for the tray form of the units, they will continue to be available until around this same time next year (September 7, 2012).

Considering the existence of the second generation Sandy Bridge, and the nearing arrival of Ivy Bridge, as well as the LGA 2011 socket, among other things, this move makes sense.

In fact, the LGA 1156 platform as a whole is more or less already out of business, with just some loose ends left to be tied up, these being only the latest.