Tuesday, April 10, 2001
More Details on Intel CPU Pricing! [8:54 pm] Rat We have already told you a bit about some impressively large price cuts planned by Intel in the nearest future. Today we?ve got some more info from one of our reliable sources. Here are more "shocking" details for you!
Pentium 4 2GHz on the older Willamette core (Socket 423) - due in June
Tualatin and Pentium III 1.13GHz on Coppermine core ? due in June
Celeron 900 ? due in June
And now we would like to make a few comments of ours:
One of the greatest price drops for the entire history of Intel Corp. will take place on 29 April 2001 and will touch upon Pentium 4 processors. All elder models will get almost two times cheaper. This is how Intel pentium4 will start its massive and aggressive attack to the market, so that to make 1/3 of all Intel?s processors sold by the end of the year. Pentium 4 younger models will cost less than the elder Intel Pentium III . Of course, this changes will inevitably tell on the competition between Pentium III and Athlon: the situation promises to be extremely tough for the latter, because the cost of similar systems based on MAD Athlon CPUs will be just the same as that of systems built on Intel Pentium 4.
The fastest Pentium III on Tualatin core will no longer feature 1.26GHz as everybody had expected but only 1.2GHz. As for the price, it will be very close to that of Pentium 4 1.7GHz, which makes it absolutely undemanded. The same thing happens to the Pentium IIII 1.13GHz, which will cost just the same as Pentium 4 1.5GHz.Actually it looks as if Intel were ready to do everything possible to give way to its favorite, Pentium 4 CPU.
By the middle of the year Intel will stop shipping mainstream processors with the core frequencies below 1GHz.
Celeron 900 will also cost quite a lot: its price will be only $20 less than that of Pentium 4 1.3GHz. We suppose that its performance will also be not too much lower than that of Pentium 4 1.3GHz.
