The arrival on the market of AMD Ryzen processors seems to have had no impact on Intel. Currently, they are still the kings of the market, despite the existence of equal or better competitive solutions. But, this market dominance has caused Intel to hurt the company in the past and to discontinue certain processors.
Very possibly you have not even heard, but there are fewer and fewer processors on the market. We are not referring to the physical number of chips, but to different solutions within the same family. And it is that the company has abandoned ranges of products that barely brought them income.
Intel increasingly has a smaller product catalog
It seems that we have forgotten about Intel’s problems of a few years ago. The company had major problems in the production of processors. The thing was so serious that Apple took advantage of the situation to announce its processors and gradually abandon Intel.
After those problems, the company has had to make important changes in its operations. Among the big changes, it has been to abandon a large part of its different ranges of processors. We have gone from a wide variety of processors on the market to only finding processors from the Core range . The processors on this list are because they are not manufactured in modern Intel processes, they are increasingly rare to see or directly, they have been discontinued.
The company has dropped low-end Atom processors and also Pentium and Celeron processors . Although there are still some solutions on the market, these processors are of no importance to the company. They are processors that give little profit margin compared to the Intel Core.
Another of the product ranges that has disappeared is the Core-X. These processors were solutions designed for Workstations and the like, but they have disappeared from the market. Curiously, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper, little by little, have been erased from the market. The Core-X have finally been replaced by the Core (dry) that have a large number of cores.
Finally, we have the Intel Xeon . For years some models were sold commercially , something that has gone down in history. Currently, only companies that develop systems for servers, data centers, professional network storage and the like are sold. But, to top it off, the Xeon Scalable sub-range has disappeared , some processors that existed for a very short time because they hardly had any interest in the market.
Intel needed to clean up
The truth is that Intel had a huge number of products in its catalogue, often overlapping or irrelevant. They had manufacturing issues, they wanted to get into the graphics card market, and that required some radical action. Although it has not been made public, the gradual disappearance of these products is quite evident in the market.
It made little sense to stick with Core-Xs with the increase in cores of Intel Core processors. The reduced sales of Xeon processors for custom work systems, it made little sense existing clone systems. The Atom market has come to nothing, as they were basically used in very low-end Mini PCs and entry-level laptops, being replaced by Qualcomm ones.
Regarding the Celeron and Pentium, these have also disappeared or practically disappeared. The market has been expelling them and they have been left aside. Although there is still some supply on the market, they are increasingly residual.