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Hippo
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 Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 7:08 am Post subject: Intel to stop making 386/486/960 plus others |
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Source: The Register
By Tony Smith
18th May 2006 09:58 GMT
Intel has finally waved farewell to is 386 and 486 processors, though their departure will be a drawn-out process, lasting through to 28 September 2007, Reg Hardware has learned, when the chip maker will no longer ship the parts. Its original RISC chip, the i960, is also for the chop.
Intel documentation reveals that the company believes "the forecasted volumes for these product lines are now too low to continue production of these products beyond the year 2007", leaving it "no choice" but to discontinue the parts.
intel i960 32-bit risc cpu intel 486 cisc cpu
Where are they now? Intel's 960 RISC and 486 CISC processors
Orders for the chips, Intel told customers this month, will continue to be taken until 30 March 2007.
"Intel has been manufacturing...the 386 and the 486 processor families for over 15 years now," the company said (almost) tearfully.
Joining the 386 and the 486 on the stairs to the great fab in the sky are the MCS 51, MCS 251 and MCS 96 microcontrollers, the 186 chip family, and the i960 series of 32-bit RISC chips, which we thought had long since vanished, displaced by the StrongARM processor brought in when the company acquired DEC. ®
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Sniff Sniff, the end of an era |
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Cpuswe
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 7:52 am Post subject: |
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LOL @ pic! Its an IBM-made 486! 
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Hippo
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah I've spotted that auction on my usual rounds of ebay. Its been there a while IIRC or at least relisted. It'll definatly get a few more page hits now. |
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jd
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 9:03 am Post subject: |
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AAAAAAAAAH man !
That's sweet !
refuring to the ebay collection...
JD 
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debs3759
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LOL
There was an offer made a mere 5 minutes after you mentioned it here 
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| cheap copy! |
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FDIV
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| Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 11:22 am Post subject: |
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| I'm curious to see what it goes for. It has several chips in it which are pretty uncommon but nothing exceedingly rare. Most of what he has I already own. |
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morkork
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gshv
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I had a feeling the pictures were taken from CPU collector site They could at least add a link to the site - as a courtesy.
Gennadiy |
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sammyc
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 1:53 am Post subject: Re: Intel to stop making 386/486/960 plus others |
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Orders for the chips, Intel told customers this month, will continue to be taken until 30 March 2007.
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I am interested to where Intel are still producing 386 and 486 chips, and what they are being used on.
*placing my order now for date code 752 *
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gshv
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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The seller now has 9 offers  - all pending
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sammyc
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Some one randomly on my messenger gae me the link today - nothing to do with computers at all... it's gained a lot of publicity this week.....
get ready for lift off cpu collectors...
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