Intel Celeron processor will retire?

SINGAPORE - Sophisticated technology that when eaten any time of course will become obsolete. It also goes on one of the products of Intel, Celeron. At the beginning, Intel Celeron handle customers, by bringing processors 'cost effective' special laptop and home computer.

But with the emergence of a new family category as Intel's Core can not be pursued Celeron. Based on the fact that, Intel Celeron will decide who tilled memuseumkan Intel products since 1998. Reportedly, Intel will stop the processor tasks in 2011 gradually.

Intel realistically assess the steps to be taken. Observers around the development of information technology and speculate laptops Intel has a new claim to prepare "The rumors were not true, Intel had no plans to remove the Celeron brand in 2011," said Barry Sum, as quoted from Computer World, last weekend.

In fact, the latest price list, Intel still include a new line of Celeron family. Desktop processor with a frequency of 2.4GHz and 2.6GHz is priced at around USD 43-53 or approximately Rp. 430-550

Intel has been relying on a number of brands for their main processors since the early 1990s, when the lineage of his predecessors to produce a Pentium 486 processor. Since then the company continues to add other brands, including Xeon, Itanium, Celeron, Centriono, Atom and Core.

Xeon and Itanium is Intel's brand specifically for the category of server processors, while Intel's Core is a major mainstay for laptops and computers. While the Atom family is designed for small laptops low price, aka netbook and also a small kind of mobile devices.

Then as usual, sitting in the category of the cheapest Celeron Intel processor category, located just below the Pentium. Intel currently sells eight versions of the Pentium, all in a kind of dual-core chips with speeds ranging between 2.6 GHz to 3.2 GHz. Intel sells processors for each unit ranging from 64 dollars up to 87 dollars in a single package containing a minimum purchase of 1,000 units.