Intel adds chips, cuts prices, kills lines

Making room for all that new speed can be difficult... just ask Intel. The chipmaker has been doing some reshuffling as of late, leaving some space in its lineup for the new Penryn CPUs we're all foaming at the mouth over. First off, Intel has added the mobile-based Core 2 Extreme X7900, plus the desktop-destined, 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo T7800 and 2GHz T7250. The company has also announced its first Core 2 Solo processors, the 1.2GHz U2200 and the 1.06GHz U2100, as well as a few new Celeron M chips, in the form of the 2GHz 550 and the 1.72GHz 530. Other odds and ends showed up, like the new ULV Celeron M 523, and the dual core, 2GHz Pentium E2180. The company also cut prices on a number of existing processors by up to 40-percent, which will either make you really happy, or really sad (depending on whether or not you bought anything). Additionally, Intel announced end-of-life news for a whole batch of CPUs, including all of the Core Solo and Duo chips, with ordering availability expected to end sometime around the 31st of December. Hit the links for all the detailed nastiness.

[Thanks, Jorge]

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[mewantphone @ Sep 10th 2007 10:33AM]

Get ready for new sony UX with Core 2 Solo and redesigned keyboard.

[Singh @ Sep 10th 2007 10:45AM]

Is this a sign that there's something new going to be released?

[sean.jennings @ Sep 10th 2007 10:53AM]

guess that explains why Apple updated the Mac Mini's to Core 2 Duo then...

[melvz @ Sep 10th 2007 11:14AM]

something to trample on the lackluster launch of Barcelona...

[Tim @ Sep 10th 2007 11:28AM]

Ahh, so although I've ordered a TZ21, I'm hoping that this is the reason there was nothing official about it yet and now that Intel have made the announcement there will be another engadget thread with all the gory details :)

[Tucker @ Sep 10th 2007 11:29AM]

Is Intel CEO Paul Otellini going to offer a $100 credit to people who bought chips more than 14 days ago?

[Wesburl @ Sep 10th 2007 11:38AM]

Yes, hes going to apologize just like Steve while drinking "teh Kool Aid" and screaming O YEA!

[NovaLand @ Sep 10th 2007 11:32AM]

What about curing cancer?

[gescamil @ Sep 10th 2007 11:33AM]

so wait, does that mean that the t7600 is going to drop in price as well...?

[Will Sullivan @ Sep 10th 2007 1:51PM]

"First off, Intel has added the mobile-based Core 2 Extreme X7900, plus the desktop-destined, 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo T7800 and 2GHz T7250."

As far as I know, this statement is incorrect. The T line is mobile CPUs. It appears that the only new desktop CPU today is the E2180. All the rest are mobile CPUs.

[futurepastnow @ Sep 10th 2007 2:22PM]

Indeed. All T-series processors are mobile. Although there are a couple of desktop motherboards for them, if you're into low-power computing.

[andrew @ Sep 10th 2007 4:06PM]

i refuse to get a new computer until AMD releases an entirely new set of chips