Core i7 Desktop Chip from Intel: Stopping Shipments in 2009
Posted on May 15, 2009 by admin Under Computers · Leave a Comment
Only a little less than a year later Intel has decided to stop the sales of their high-end desktop chip which was confirmed by the company recently.
Late in 2008 Intel released a 2.93 GHz Core i7 940 processor desktop chip which was one of the three chips released by the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture. The chip was designed to be used within high end PCs. This chip was designed to include the on-chip memory controller as well as added support for the DDR3 memory. It was also used for Intel’s QuickPath Interconnect technology alongside all the others.
For customers to get this chip they’ll need to have all orders confirmed before September 4th, 2009 for their Core i7 940 before they’ll no longer be able to order them according to Intel.
Nick Jacobs a spokesman of Intel recently stated, “We have communicated our shipment plans for Core i7 940 to our customers. It is actively shipping and will ship through 2009.”
There are two other products that the Core i7 940 got caught in between. It seemed that the 940 didn’t receive the amount of sales needed to compete just like the 2.66 GHz Core i7 920 which was also priced much cheaper. It didn’t have the ability to keep up with the performance of a 3.2GHz Core i7 965 Extreme Edition which was recently stated by a source located at the Taiwanese motherboard maker.
Later in 2009 it has been stated that Nehalem microarchitecture will be releasing other advanced desktop chips from Intel.
Back in February there was announcements that the company would be accelerating the shift towards the 32-nanometer manufacturing process for the upcoming Nehalem desktop chips known as the Clarkdale utilizing this development process. By having an advanced process for manufacturing the Clarkdale will be much faster and take less power compared to the existing Core i7 processors that have been available.
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