Intel Cuts Prices, Reveals Details of New Celeron

Chacham sent us some interesting Intel tidbits from Yahoo! News: First, they're cutting prices on P-II and P-IIIs between 26% and 41% (depending on model) tomorrow. Second, this October they plan to release a new line of 600 MHz+ Celerons using their recently-developed 0.18 micron manufacturing process, which isn't "new" news, but the referenced article goes into more detail than previous ones on the subject so it's worth a quick scan.

Comments

Re:Let's thank AMD

[sjames]

Absolutely! If Athelon had performed poorly in benchmarks, Intel would have never cut it's prices.

The next thing to look at is how 1GHz cooled Athelon systems (from Kryotech, with AMD's blessing IIRC) affect Intel's policy on overclocking.

Yeah, unfortunately

[webslacker]

I've been drooling over getting an Athlon system for months, and now I'm reading all sorts of articles mentioning that AMD might not be able to manufacture enough of these nuggets, or maybe there won't be enough motherboard support, etc.

*sigh*

Let's thank AMD

[webslacker]

Without whose competition these prices might not have been possible. Competition is good, no?

Multiprocessor capabilities ?

[Uzull]

The article didn't mention if the new celeron has the ability to in a dual processor configuration.
Does anyone have infos about that ?

Re:Athlon to compete with Celeron at the Low End

[Hadean]

FUD.

Re:cutting price link

[MrPlab]

This is the actual relevant link to this story. Whoops :)

http://dailynews.yahoo .com/h/zd/19990820/tc/19990820154.html
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