Intel Phases Out 19 Core-i3, i5, i7 and Pentium CPUs

19 core CPUs was the first i thought and i was like WTF is this?

That sucks...

Intel, cleaning house.

Now if only they'd phase out the Core 2s and consolidate the remaining SB Celerons and Pentiums into the Core i# nomenclature.

...and do away with Atom.

what about the crappy Atom ? should be clean out

How about they phase out ATOM?
That piece of junk is pretty much useless except for basic office applications.

And still, everywhere I go the machines they use in businesses either have core 2 duo's or i3's.
Except for this book store that had an Atom checkout machine. LOL.

This is only to be expected...must've been a slow news day.

I too was interested in the details of a 19-core CPU.

Why? Do you really want to go spend your hard earned dollars on a three year old platform that's more expensive and slower than the current one? These aren't cheap chips they're phasing out, and you could upgrade your system to Sandy Bridge for about the same cost and see WAY better performance.

i was kinda upset about the lack of 19 core processors as well...

It will be interesting to see what this will do for the pricing of these.

Intel is on the roll...

I finally built an X58 Core i7 to find out only months later it's an antique!

I've got an i7 930 dating from march 2009, it turned out to be my best buy ever for its price/performance.... overclocked to 4Ghz since I bought it

That just makes me realize that my Q6600 is getting really old.
Combined with my 4870 it still plays all dx9 and most dx10 games perfectly.
I guess the list of games that are top of the line graphics intensive, fun, and have a satisfyingly singleplayer experience is too short to warrant a full system upgrade for me.
Maybe next year with new generations of intel and nvidia products I'll be compelled to upgrade, but for now, my system is good enough

I had a very similar experience, except this was when I first got into building PCs, back in late 2006, when AMD was at the top of their game. I finally finished building an amazing 939 system with an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard and Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with ONE WHOLE GB of DDR400 RAM and a 7600GT.
But then, what seemed like only a few weeks went by and AMD released their AM2 platform, compatible with DDR2 memory. Suddenly all 939 components went extinct faster than the dodo and DDR memory became an endangered component as DDR2 became cheaper, faster, and more plentiful. I was like, FML. Of course, not long after that Intel released their Core 2 Duo line of processors and the rest is history.
Fortunately, that 939 system served me well until September of this year, where I finally decided to upgrade to an i5-2500K, with a motherboard that is ready for Ivy Bridge and PCI-E 3.0. I also upgraded to a 560 Ti which I got for LESS than that 7600GT I first bought in 2006 for $186!
Only 6 years and the landscape has completely changed. Now there are Core i5s and i7s everywhere and AMD no longer competes with Intel in desktop CPUs, though arguably that has been the case for a while now.

They already discontinued all of the "DUO" and Original "QUAD" E, and Q series. I snagged a Q9550 before it was - Which in my opinion is as good as any chip out there for gaming performance even now. The others are "faster" but not worth a complete new unit at this time. Probably won't need to upgrade till the next gen after sandy-e arrives. 60FPS at 1080P is fine already by me! Adding a second video card will make unit from 2008 last even longer! Solid chip

intel needs to make 1 socket work for a long time regardless of the cpu, look at what amd has done with their motherboards.

im willing to bet money that more people bought the wrong mother board in intels side than on amd.

Oh yeah i bought a i7-950 with a GTX480 and couple of week after i7 2600k was out with gtx 570/580 for almost the same price range or lower, kinda stupid, but on the gaming side, i play everything max out still. But i would like to get more a 2600k for my video encoding.

Who actually wants 2 year old CPUs anyway? I sure see no need for a pentium 775 or a 1156 CPU (I notice the i5 lynnfields are missing, like 750 and 760). The only reason you'd want one if if you're upgrading an older PC.

I think the 1155 i3, i5, and i7 CPUs are nice and consoliated (i3 2100, i5 2300 2400 2500, i6 2600 and 2700), but the Pentiums and celerons could be consoliated - how about just one (maybe two) pentiums, and that's it? Oh, and screw atom! AMD Fusion is a lot better!

I can't wait to see the 19 replacements!

That antique will hold it's own for another two years before it barely meets most needs. By then even SB will be old news for most.

nice move..

Would like to find myself a "cheaper" 970 to upgrade from my 920 now.

Still using a X3350 (Q9450) and it does the job well, but I can't seem to find a reason to upgrade to Sandy Bridge /E. Ivy Bridge looks attractive, but I'll have to see if there are any true benefits before I take the plunge. Maybe if my board holds out, I may skip Ivy Bridge and head over to Haswell /E.
BTW certain Core 2 Quads have 12MB L2 cache, which none of the current mainstream models has, even the Core i7 2600K tops out at 8MB. Intel now calls it Smart Cache, but I assume it's L3?

I don't get why they needed so many varied CPU's anyways. It seems pointless to have all these 0.1Ghz increments in every socket type with just a couple dollars variance. Many times two or more models are sold at the same price for the same socket.

How about simplifying things. When you replace a socket with a new one. Dump most of the manufacturing for it. Just leave three speeds for each core count low end, middle and high end for replacements of the few CPU's that fail and upgrades.

Heck for current sockets the increments should be cut to about 0.3Ghz so each level up is a 10% to 15% boost. Making it actually meaningful to choose the next step up. I'd think this could also drop there costs and reduce prices. Since they would not have to make so many lines. Although most speed steps are probably the exact same CPU with some micro jumpers set differently to tell the CPU that it is a faster model.

I know what you mean. My personal network is Q9550 OC'd and GTX260, Q6600 OC'd and a G80 8800GTS, and an E7500 OC'd and a 4870.

But I do plan on upgrading to IB.

I don't know why they are phasing out the entry level pentium cpus ,they are good processors under $100 like the amd atholon ii x3 rana

Because there're sub-$100 Sandy Bridge Pentiums and Celerons available, and I can verify that they're quite good for the price.

Relax, guys... Intel is phasing out the old CPUs - so? It's pure gain for everyone. Intel can concentrate on making new chips (prices drop). Enthusiasts don't get hurt since phasing older CPUs out doesn't mean they're gonna perform worse - Core 2 Quads are still kicking, X58 will be kicking even when IB is around. Also, keep in mind a cool possibility: your board craps out, you try to return it on the warranty but there's no stock - they offer you a brand-new new-gen board/CPU - almost happened to me recently (got offered a Z68 board instead of P67 but denied due to lack of PS/2, no benefits and extra cost I had to pay).

I welcome this news, though I'm surprised that LGA1366 is that old - I thought it's only like 1.5 years (that's when I first heard about it), but it's almost 4... Apparently, Intel did a small mistake there by introducing an enthusiast platform first and mainstream second; they learned their lesson well and Sandy Bridge did the opposite.

In other news, many boards are already getting BIOS updates to support Ivy Bridge My P8P67 Pro already got it; Intel has AMD beaten on all fronts: value for money AND socket life duration

I wonder what's stopping Intel from trying to make a decent dedicated GPU... probably too much competition. I bet that at one point they'll just acquire nVidia

They are only phasing out the Pentiums on the older sockets, not for the current socket of 1155.

To those who are talking about their computers being obsolete. That is utter freaking bull. Quit acting like your computer will suddenly develop Alzheimer's and will now take hours to open up your browser. I have a E8400 and I do photo editing and have explored professional video editing. It can handle those tasks very well, and the photo edits don't slow the system down at all, and take less than a minute for some edits. Video editing is smooth. Sure, I'll shave time off with a new processor, but its not like my system is struggling to perform. As for gaming, I just upgraded from a 8800 GT (which played most games on high settings, with the exception of Crysis, which was on low) on a 1920 x 1200 monitor smoothly. Heck, Skyrim ran on ultra at 22 FPS, no AA/AF. But I just upgraded to a 560 Ti 448 Core, and you know what? Not a single game dips below 32 FPS at 100% MAX settings (including full AA and AF). So knock off that whiny "oh, my computer is a worthless piece of junk" crap. Its annoying as hell and makes you guys look like entitled brats whose parents bought you a Ferrari when you wanted that Bugatti.

I thought the exact same thing!