Intel still releasing single-core processors?

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Is Intel still releasing single core processors for desktop personal computers? I have heard that they don't use the practice that Advanced Micro Devices uses of deactivating defective cores on quad-core processor chips and using the remaining cores that work.

 

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I know there are still some single core Xeon processors available and the Celeron single core is still available. I don't know whether or not they are discontinued and still in distribution channel or whether they still manufacture them. I would suspect the former but I don't know. I think a trip to their website would probably answer that.

 

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This was stated August 25, 2005:
"We expect single-core processors to exist for quite some time in our value-processor line," Steve Smith, vice president of Intel's digital enterprise group, said this week at the Intel Developer Forum here.
http://news.cnet.com/Intel-to-make-single-core-Yonah/2100-1006_3-5843344.html

It's almost been four years since that statement was made. I wonder how long Intel plans to keep making single-core processors for desktop computers?

Intel will still continue to make single-core processors for other equipment other than desktop computers in my opinion for a very long time.