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[edit] Centrino
I was looking through the processor list, and I noticed the distinct lack of Centrino. I would have added it, but I thought there might be a reason it was absent, like it being a subset of Pentium M (I don't know if that's true, but it could explain it). Anyone care to shed some light on this? ~ Oni Lukos (No, that's not my real name) c 19:51, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
- Well, don't I feel stupid? I always assumed that Centrino was the actual processor line and not a combination of various things as the Centrino sticker on my laptop is in the same place as where there's usually a sticker denoting the processor used. I guess I should have read the article I linked to. ~ Oni Lukos c 18:03, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks!
The split of "discontinued/continued" is a massive iprovement. I just split teh Itanium processors back to acommodate the split. -Arch dude 03:45, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
- I'm not sure the split is correct though, it certainly contradicts the pentium 4 article which says the last shipment of pentium 4 processors will be in 2008. Plugwash 14:56, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "Intel CPU slots and sockets" a bit confusing
It could be just me, but I find the current layout to be a little confusing. The current rows look like this:
Box 1 (color 1): Intel _processors_
Box 2 (color 2): Discontinued | (list)
Box 3 (color 2): Current | (list)
Box 4 (color 1): _Intel CPU slots and sockets_
Italics indicate non-x86 processors.
What this said to me when I read it is that line 1 was a header for a table. Lines 2 and 3 were clearly payload for that header, being in a different color, and having individual row labels, each having lots of clickable content. OK so far.
So what's line 4? It looks like a header -- same color as line 1, centered text, bold. So where's the payload? Given its resemblance to a header, I expected to see a list of slots/sockets. Since (most of) the "real" header is clickable, but still has a table of links to follow, it wasn't obvious to me that the real content for maybe-header is only to be found by clicking on it.
Also in this maybe-header is a comment about what italics mean, but there are no italics in this box. This little bit of explanation is separated from the thing it's really explaining.
I would suggest changing this to look something like:
Box 1 (color 1): Intel _processors_ (Italics indicate non-x86 processors) Box 2 (color 2): Discontinued | (list) Box 3 (color 2): Current | (list) Box 4 (color 2): Slots / Sockets | See _CPU socket_ --NapoliRoma 21:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Rather than a text representation, here's a coded example of what I think would be a less confusing layout:
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| (Italics indicate non-x86 processors) | |
| Discontinued | 4004 • 4040 • 8008 • 8080 • 8085 • iAPX 432 • i860 • i960 •
8086 • 8088 • 80186 • 80188 • 80286 • 80386 • 80486 • Pentium • Pentium Pro • Pentium II • Pentium III • Itanium • Pentium 4 • Pentium D • Pentium Extreme Edition • Pentium M |
| Current | Pentium Dual-Core • Core • Core 2 • Celeron • Xeon • XScale • Itanium 2 |
| Associated technologies |
Intel CPU slots and sockets • Intel chipsets |
[edit] Discontinued vs Current Processors
I'm sorry but whomever took it upon themselves to label many still in production processors as discontinued really should have seen which had been discontinued. http://www.intel.com/products/embedded/processors.htm?iid=process+embed shows the processors in current production. Really the only discontinued CPU's are <=i486 and the <=i960 and the 386 and 486 only gained this status in summer 2006 (http://www.embedded.com/columns/embeddedpulse/188500905?_requestid=277155). At the very least, a clarification is needed as to which are 'current' and 'discontinued' since there is only a small fraction of those parts now actually discontinued.
Rada 06:55, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
The link you provided shows embedded products. What that means is that these are no longer current products and are in an extended life cycle phase for embedded applications only! Further more, I am a computer tech and I know that these are discontinued products. Intel discontinued the Pentium M in favor of the newer 65nm Pentium Dual core and Celeron M processors. Production for the 90nm CPUs ended at the end of 2007. We no longer can get Pentium M processors in our store for custom laptop builds. They are in an embedded life cycle phase! The only Pentium D processors currently being manufactured are the 925 and 945 models and that too will end in the second half of 2008. That means that these are no longer mainstream products, hence the term discontinued. Jdlowery (talk) 01:30, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Nehalem and Sandy Bridge
Shouldn't we put the Nehalem and the Sandy Bridge into the speculated list of the template? 189.31.94.176 (talk) 23:55, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
