Even though today is AMD Day, let us talk about Intel a bit. The company announced last week that it will discontinue another bunch of desktop and mobile processors because the market now requires more powerful devices, and Intel generally agrees with it since it also needs to sell all those more powerful CPUs to various customers who sometimes even do not know what they need (probably they do not read X-bit labs).

The company said that it will soon begin to phase-out Pentium 4 1.80GHz processor for Socket 478 and based on the Northwood core as well as Celeron 1.70GHz based on Willamette-128 and also intended for the same platform. In addition, Intel announced it will discontinue Pentium 4-M 1.80GHz, Pentium III-M 933MHz LV, and Mobile Intel Celeron Processor 1.60 and 1.0GHz chips.

Product Discontinuance Program Support began on April 18, 2003 for the desktop processors mentioned above, while the same act was carried out for the mobile CPUs on the 9^th of April this year. Intel will ship its Tray versions of Pentium III-M and Pentium 4-M on the 11^th of October, 2004, and will supply Pentium 4-M 1.80GHz for the last time on November the 7^th next year. The named Celeron chips for notebooks will be forgotten starting from the 9^th of April, 2004. Last Product Discontinuance Shipment Date for Desktop Pentium 4 1.80GHz in Tray version is October 15, 2004 and November 14, 2003 for Boxed CPUs. The date of Celeron 1.70GHz CPU oblivion is the 16^th of April, 2004. In reality, all such CPUs will disappear in a number of months from now and you will never remember about them in 2004.