Intel to Discontinue Nearly All Desktop Kaby Lake CPUs

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• BedfordTim - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

  The embedded versions are marked IoT in the table.
  IT departments also like to support kit as replacing someone's computer can be surprisingly expensive.

• drexnx - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

  it's not like processors wear out or go bad during a typical device lifecycle though.

• DanNeely - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

  And as long as they have to keep making the base die for the guaranteed long availability models it costs them almost nothing to bin a few of the chips into other models for anyone who actually wants them. Mostly embedded customers with slightly faster product turnover rates I assume.

• PhilipJ - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

  When making a product companies often make deals with manufacturers to keep certain parts in production, so that they can keep producing their own product for as long as possible without needing to refresh the design every couple of years.
  Those deals might have ran out by now, which is why they're now marked as EOL.

• damianrobertjones - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

  I think they continued selling them, for awhile, because it enabled people to post using capitals at the start of sentences. I think they've given up. :)

• Dragonstongue - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

  ROFL
  
  lolz

• drexnx - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

  I had to conserve 'em so Dragonstongue could randomly capitalize entire words in his unintelligible screed.

• Dragonstongue - Friday, October 11, 2019 - link

  if YOU were not aware, just because Intel has a "higher 14nm version" does NOT auto mean better performance...there ARE + / - one generation to the next....Intel has been busting their butt (as well as their massive bank accounts etc) JUST to stay "relevant" (competing with others using "near same" die size, transistor size, gate pitch all that fancy stuff.
  
  to my Knowledge, really the only "new chips" Intel has release in past few years that are beasts (chew power to try and prove how beastly) 9900 (various models)
  
  beyond such....2000 got replaced by 3000 (not really worth at all) 4000 (some were better, not all) 5000/6000 (these were pretty much the "turn point" "overall" i.e go from max performance with an eye on power use to max power use reduction WHILE keeping performance up, 7000 mostly increase over 6000, 8000 far as I am aware, they "back peddle" performance to gain in other ways, then there is 9000 generation (one they are shipping currently)
  
  the 9600 mehh 6-7-8000 had direct compete with bt overall, 9000 is the "new" balance point for Intel in regards that they can make a lean chip, or drive it to mach10 level (use copious power produce lots of heat, not even Intel can go beyond physics limitations)
  
  IMO they likely ONLY doing this because they see is maybe that much more $$$$ for THEM to keep producing old (likely pricey) tooling for a few "ok sellers" the rest have been replaced for years effectively
  
  there is also the other side that Intel has NOT really highlighted as of late
  
  SECURITY
  
  maybe they also getting rid of the "old insecure" to maybe try to get a full top to bottom as secure as can be designs............

• Diji1 - Monday, October 14, 2019 - link

  >8000 far as I am aware, they "back peddle" performance to gain in other ways
  
  You don't seem to be aware that they added more cores and threads to most of the 8000 series ...

• Kastriot - Saturday, October 12, 2019 - link

  Because they are greedy bastards?