Intel Retires Kaby Lake-X-processors After launching them just 10 months ago
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schmidtbag
Huh. It's almost as though Intel had no way to have foreseen how stupid these products were to begin with.
Loophole35
Didn't see this coming.
/s
D3M1G0D
I still cannot believe Kaby Lake-X was actually a thing (seemed like a bad joke when it was announced, and still feels like a joke today). Intel's explanation was also so bizarre (that these chips are a gateway to the HEDT platform) that I doubt even hardcore Intel fans believed them. I guess the joke's run its course?
oxidized
What a shocking news
H83
Intel´s worst idea ever???
-Tj-
Agree, this crapola won't be missed.
I want to see new Icelake processors, or will that be another flop?.
nizzen
Overclocked, it's still the fastest quadcore cpu ever made 🙂
For me, quadcore is so 2007. I'm using 7980xe for my workstation 🙂
schmidtbag
These definitely top as one of Intel's worst ideas, but I wouldn't say it's the worst. Despite how stupid these products are, they actually performed very well and were good overclockers. I think they'd be seen as less ridiculous if both they and the motherboards cost less (though even if they cost $10, they'd still be a stupid product).
The thing about Intel is they're really good at making people forget about their worst ideas. I'm not sure if Intel has ever made anything that was exceptionally bad (aside from their IGPs), but rather they have a lot of products that were forgettable because they were trying too create a market that either didn't need to exist or where there were better alternatives. Take Viiv for some example - most people never heard of it, even though it was a consumer-level "product" . I would consider that a worse idea than Kaby Lake X, because it was pretty much DOA with no redeeming qualities at all.
In my opinion, Intel's worst idea was how long they kept non-64-bit CPUs in production. I'm pretty sure the last one they made (that wasn't for IoT devices) was an Atom series in 2011. 32-bit x86 CPUs should've ceased to exist by 2006 at the very latest, and even that feels a bit late to me.
-Tj-
Optane is another thing that comes to my mind, they try so hard pushing it and its still a flop, no?
airbud7
I think that would be the Pentium D ....but yea.
Moonbogg
Intel's last attempt at selling us overpriced quad cores. Remember this moment because this is exactly when the quad core CPU took its very last breath and finally died.
Warrax
Next: Optane
Nah just kidding, it's great technology but they have to drop the price.
schmidtbag
Optane in of itself was a good idea and well made. It is a fantastic product (well, maybe not the 16GB models...), it's just tremendously overpriced and way too picky about what systems it can be used in. If Optane fails, it's because Intel got too greedy and proprietary about it. It can be redeemed, if Intel cuts back the pricing and opens it up to more chipsets.
D3M1G0D
Optane is pretty sad. Intel keeps putting it out there and it keeps getting rejected. It's like a guy desperately trying to woo a girl that he can never get. The sooner Intel gives up on it, the better off they will be.
airbud7
If you really want the girl....get a puppy! ....
https://i.imgur.com/9a7cAAh.jpg
works every for me!....:D
We have a lot of puppys now... 😀
wavetrex
Do not forget...
http://lowendmac.com/wp-content/uploads/titanic-sinking.jpg
They actually invested massive amounts of money and resources in this one, unlike the little Kaby X
schmidtbag
I was actually writing about Itanium in one of my earlier posts but decided against it. Itanium was moderately successful in the server market, at least before x86-64 was a thing. The problem is Intel kept pushing for it after x86-64 was established (though, part of me wonders if that was really just HP pushing for it, since they were so invested in it).
nizzen
No, I have 3x intel 900p optane 480GB...
If you don't know if you need it, then you don't 🙂
ladcrooks
it had its day, well nearly a day 😀
-Tj-
