Intel to Discontinue Nearly All Desktop Kaby Lake CPUs

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• Samus - Sunday, October 13, 2019 - link

  The Atom shares literally 90% of its architecture with the Pentium III

• ibnmadhi - Sunday, October 13, 2019 - link

  In addition to what the other poster said Pentium M also shares like 90% of its architecture with Pentium III...

• peevee - Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - link

  First Atoms were in-order parts, even Pentium Pro was out-of-order. Pentium M were OoO AFAIR.

• HStewart - Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - link

  Actually in newer processors the Pentium's like G4600 or so listed about Pentium M actually have move closer to iSeries except for lower voltage. Architexture with at least 7 and 8 series not much different and I saw absolute no difference with new 10nm series except for power. It would be very interesting to see the performance. 10th series even has AVX-512

• HStewart - Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - link

  No editing here what I meant the G4600 Pentiums are closer to Atom, But you mention Pentium M which you might be close - not to be confuse with Core - M which is close to I series.

• Korguz - Thursday, October 17, 2019 - link

  come on hstewart... learn how to spell architecture correctly !!!!!!!! for some one who " claims " to know so much about computers and says they have had the jobs in that industry for 30 years.. and you cant even spell that word correctly ??????

• eastcoast_pete - Saturday, October 12, 2019 - link

  If for no other reason, the 486 Dx was a lot less power hungry than the Pentium and Pentium II, and perfectly suitable for office use with the Windows versions before Win95. Also a lot cheaper.

• regsEx - Thursday, October 10, 2019 - link

  Business. It's far easier and cheaper to maintain large park of devices when they all same.

• eek2121 - Thursday, October 10, 2019 - link

  Because as the process matures and R&D is paid for, costs go down. That means they actually make the most money on their older chips, even with price cuts. AMD uses the same strategy.

• ilt24 - Thursday, October 10, 2019 - link

  @drexnx ... "why were they even still making these?"
  
  They guarantee supply of the embedded version of their chips for 7 years which are the same die on the same process...so they need to keep production going to support the embedded version. WIth the non embedded version, they can do the EOL notice any time before the EOL of the embedded version, it could depend on demand or the lasiness of the person that formally does the EOL notice :-)