Intel will take final ordered for the Pentium D mid December and make the final shipment in March of 2007

This comes are no surprise, as the geriatric Netbus architecture has few advantage over Core and only at very high frequency where the power usage and heat generation are embarrassing. This means that after 13 years, Intel will bravely retire the Pentium brand. It's rare for companies to abandon a brand name; most get locked in as they achieve popularity and fear that changing it would confuse consumers. Now that the Pentium has gone full circle, from the initial disappointment with the original Pentium 60 MHz, through phases of popularity and disenchantment to the final disappointment with Prescott, few of us will be sad to see Pentium Go.

DigiTimes reports.