Intel recently announced their product discontinuance plans for bunch of microprocessors at once. Of course, as always, some chips will be available for up to three years for certain customers from now, however, let us simply note that the progress in performance of x86 processors phases out slower models.

Here is the list of the products that are to be discontinued:

• Pentium III-M 1.0GHz, Pentium III-M 800/133 MHz ULV, Celeron Mobile 1.33GHz:
  • Last Product Discontinuance Order Date: April 11, 2003.
  • Last Boxed Product Discontinuance Shipment Date for Pentium III-M and Pentium 4-M CPUs: May 9, 2003.
  • Last Tray Product Discontinuance Shipment Date Pentium 4-M CPUs: May 13, 2004.
  • Last Tray Product Discontinuance Shipment Date for Celeron Mobile CPUs: October 10, 2003.
• Pentium 4-M 1.70GHz, Pentium III-M 1.13GHz, Celeron Mobile 1.20 and 1.50GHz:
  • Last Product Discontinuance Order Date: May 9, 2003.
  • Last Boxed Product Discontinuance Shipment Date for processors mentioned above: August 8, 2003.
  • Last Product Tray Discontinuance Shipment Date for Pentium 4-M 1.70GHz and Pentium III-M 1.13GHz CPUs for PC Applications: June 18, 2004.
  • Last Tray Product Discontinuance Shipment Date for Celeron Mobile 1.20 and 1.50GHz CPUs for PC Applications: January 16, 2004 August.
• Pentium III Xeon 700MHz with 1MB/2MB L2 Cache and 900MHz with 2MB L2 Cache:
  • Last Product Discontinuance Order Date: July 11, 2003.
  • Last Boxed Product Discontinuance Shipment Date: October 10, 2003.
  • Last Tray Product Discontinuance Shipment Date: January 13, 2006.
• Pentium III 1.13GHz with 512KB L2 Cache:
  • Last Product Discontinuance Order Date: July 11, 2003.
  • Last Boxed Product Discontinuance Shipment Date: October 10, 2003.
  • Last Tray Product Discontinuance Shipment Date: January 13, 2006.