Santa Clara (CA) - Spring cleaning in Intel's product line-up: The company said it will remove Pentium 4 workstation and server processors that carry the EM64T add-on and sell the chips from now on as part of the Pentium 500 series. The 2.80 GHz version of the desktop processor retires.
The "product discontinuance" for a total of eight Pentium 4 processors stirred some confusion among system builders and users. Intel however clarified that a range of processors that so far was offered under the marketing term "Pentium 4 Processor that supports Intel EM64T for servers & workstations" is still shipping, just using a different name.
Instead of carrying the GHz specification in their names, the P4s are integrated into the regular Pentium 4 500-series, a spokeswoman told Tom's Hardware Guide. Affected products are the 3.2 GHz (D-stepping) and 3.2F (E-stepping, xD capable), 3.4 GHz and 3.4F GHz, 3.6 GHz and 3.6F GHz as well as the 3.8F GHz model.
