Intel plans a massive change in the next quarter and it has warned its partners that it wants to retire many 65nm-based and some 45nm Core 2 Duos. This doesn’t comes as a surprise, as Intel is ramping up its 45nm production and you can expect more and more 45nm-based CPUs to take over the market from the 65nm ones.

In November, Intel plans to announce Product Discontinuance Notices for E8300, E8200, E8190, E6850, E6750, E6550, E6540 and E4600. Core 2 Duo E4700 will receive Product Discontinuance Notice status in December as will as seven of its brothers, and it will go to the happy hunting ground in Q1 2009. It is interesting to notice that eight series are based on 45nm Wolfdale cores.

When Intel says that the product reached its end of life this usually means that the last order is not cancellable and it’s not returnable; so when you buy it, you are on your own.

Once this transition happens, Intel will sentence E8300 and E4700 to a slow and painful end of lifecycle sentence in Q1 2009 and the final execution will take place in Q2 2009.