Intel Discontinues Extreme Edition P4

bizpile writes "X-bit Labs reports that Intel is stopping production of its Extreme Edition Pentium 4s. The company said in its statement sent to clients, 'Market demand for the Intel Pentium 4 processor Extreme Edition supporting Hyper-Threading technology 3.20GHz with 800MHz processor system bus in mPGA478 packaging has shifted to higher performance Intel processors.'"

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[Omega1045]

Market demand for the Intel Pentium 4 processor Extreme Edition supporting Hyper-Threading technology 3.20GHz with 800MHz processor system bus in mPGA478 packaging has shifted to higher performance Intel processors.'

You mean everyone has been heading for the less expensive, better performing AMD chips, from which you are now copying instruction sets.

"EE"

[MarcoPon]

Maybe because "EE" really stand for Extreme Expensive?

Bye!

Not discontinued and not stopping making P4EEs

[ricky-road-flats]

It's just the 3.2GHz one, the oldest and slowest. Now the 3.4 and 3.6 are out, it's natural to retire the slowpoke of the bunch.

There's no mention whatever of the whole Extreme Edition line being stopped, in fact they recently said they would be making further new ones in the near future... This is mentioned (with new FSB and clock speeds) here and here and here, for instance - and all quite recently.

Re:Branding

[leereyno]

Most people buying consumer-level desktops don't know the difference between a CPU and a CPA.

Intel only has brand name recognition because they advertise themselves as a brand name.

I think AMD would do well to advertise themselves as a brand also. If I were them I'd completely ignore Intel in my ads. Rather than saying "We're just as good as intel," they should be saying "We're the shit and we've never even heard of Intel."

The reason that this kind of advertisement would be successful is because your average consumer doesn't know anything about computers. Ads that simply encourage consumers to feel good about AMD as a brand will therefore be more effective than ads with a more technical message. They should use the fact that consumers don't know about them to their advantage by NOT introducing themselves as an underdog or their wares as "3rd party" products. They should instead imply that they and their products are the standard, which increasingly they are.

Lee