Intel CPU history - help!
Does anyone know of a site that documents when Intel manufactured each of their processor types? I know this sounds like a horribly geeky thing to try and find out, so perhaps if I explain what I’m trying to do…
I have a nice list of over 1000 desktop PCs that are distributed around Europe. We have an IT budget in 2004 (yay!) and want to replace the more elderly machines. The list is generated by a little agent that runs around the network and can tell me the machine name, OS, processor type, processor speed, amount of RAM, workgroup, IP address, MAC address etc. What it can’t tell me is how old a PC is. And that’s what I need to know. If I had my way, we would replace anything that isn’t a P4, but I don’t think the beancounters will buy that. The only way I can think of approximating this is from the processor type. I know that the Celeron (Mendocino) came out some time in 1999, so a PC with that processor was probably bought sometime in or after 1999. I realise that I’m only going to get ballpark figures, but if I can find out when Intel started and stopped manufacturing specific processors, I can narrow things down a bit. Or maybe there’s a better way? Unfortunately, I can’t do anything about the company’s poor asset management…
Any help or suggestions appreciated.