Written by Nicolas Gridelet
Published on May 13, 2008

URL: http://www.behardware.com/news/lire/13-05-2008/#9637

Intel has announced the retirement of the Core 2 Extreme QX6800 and QX6850. Former flagship CPUs in the Core 2 family, they have lost their entire reason for being with the arrival of the Penryn core. The last orders can be place until September 5th of this year and deliveries can be made until May 8th, 2009.

The Celeron 220 is also at the end of its product life with retirement planned at practically the same time, deliveries will be carried out until May 15th, 2009. The D201GLY2 motherboard in µATX format, upon which this CPU is soldered will also disappear. This is bad news for SiS which supplies the main components, the 662+964 duo, and with which it could thus boast about selling chipsets to the Santa Clara giant.