14 DAY TRIAL // After it has cut the prices for several processor line-ups, Intel announced it will abandon the mass manufacturing of several Intel Pentium D processors, the NetBurst micro-architecture based processors to be precise, due to low market demand.
The representatives announced that the last shipments of these particular processors line-ups will take place on February 8, 2008 and March 9, 2007 and the dead line for orders is the 15th of December, 2006.
"Intel has begun discontinuance program for dual-core Intel Pentium D processors models 830 (3.0GHz, 2MB L2 cache [1MB level-two cache per core]), 840 (3.0GHz, 2MB L2 cache [1MB level-two cache per core]), 930 (3.0GHz, 2MB L2 cache [1MB level-two cache per core]) and 940 (3.0GHz, 2MB L2 cache [1MB level-two cache per core]). The microprocessors are not especially affordable or offer competitive price-performance ratio, therefore, no customers are likely to regret about their disappearance," writes X-bit Labs.
If you remember, in the same day in which Intel announced its brand new processors - the Core 2 Duo, the company also decided to cut costs for the previously released products. So, Intel has officially announced its desktop processor price reductions that had been expected since the middle of the second quarter. Therefore, you will be able to purchase at almost half the price the LGA-775 Intel Pentium Extreme Edition (965 and 955), Pentium D (840 and 830), Pentium 4 (670, 660, 650, 641, 571, 561, 551, 521) and the MPGA-478 Celeron D (335, 330).
Also featured on Intel's slash priced processor inventory are some products that were earlier removed from it such as the LGA-775 Celeron D 326 (256k L2 cache, 2.53GHz, 533MHz FSB, 90nm) and MPGA-478 Celeron 315 (256k L2 cache, 2.26GHz, 533MHz FSB, 90nm). But the chip giant also stated that it will comprise in its low pricing list some novel products, including the already famous Pentium D 805 and 945 and the Pentium 4 524 models.