Lonely life: Intel's first desktop six-core Core i7-980X retired

After the waves of the Yangtze River pushed forward, the front waves died on the beach. Intel today announced the suspension of production and delisting of a large number of processor products, covering desktops, notebooks, servers and workstations.

The first is Intel's first desktop-grade six-core processor Core i7-980X Extreme, released in March 2010, based on the 32nm Gulftown core architecture, clocked at 3.33GHz, the official price up to 999 US dollars, and never cut prices. Like the Radeon HD 5970 on the graphics card, it is also a reborn lonely, undefeated and undefeated, and now it has a more powerful heir, Core i7-990X Extreme continue to dominate the ranks of thousands of dollars.

Followed by Intel's first batch of native quad-core notebook processors, including Core i7-920XM Extreme, Core i7-820QM, Core i7-720QM three models, released in late September 2009, 45nm Clarksfield core architecture, support for hyper-threading, The official list price is 1054 US dollars, 564 US dollars, 364 US dollars, and never have lowered the price. In the middle of last year, they all ushered in an upgraded version, the price is more expensive, and at the beginning of this year, there were a large number of new products in the Sandy Bridge architecture. It is time for the old generation to rest.

Next are two old Celeron T3100 notebooks, Celeron T3000 notebooks, or dual core 45nm technology, the current price is 80 US dollars.

The last is a group of Xeon server and workstation processors, including the first six-core Xeon X7460 in Intel's history. The specific list is as follows:

Xeon X7460
Xeon L7455
Xeon L7445
Xeon E7450
Xeon E7440
Xeon E7430
Xeon E7420
Xeon E7310
Xeon E7220
Xeon L7345

The above 16 processors all have the same delisting process: Orders after September 30, 2011 cannot be cancelled or returned. Boxed versions will cease shipping on March 9, 2012, and the bulk version will be available until the delivery is completed.