Intel dumps own Rambus mobos, tweaks price schedule

AN INTEL MEMORANDUM which has fallen into our hands shows that while some prices were adjusted over the weekend, as we've noted, others will come again on September 1st, as originally reported.

Intel brought forward the introduction of its Pentium 4/2.80GHz processor to launch today, which has to be seen as a reaction to AMD introductions last week. It was originally going to be launched early September, as well.

But Intel is also discontinuing some of its own boxed Rambus motherboards, as detailed below.

Resellers and distributors will be pulling their hair out, but that's nothing new.

815 boxed boards are also for the chop - not a huge surprise here.

It is also withdrawing other products in preparation for the introduction of new chipsets, and as shown below, is providing support for Celeron "P4/400" units.

INTEL CONFIDENTIAL
Pricing News
Boxed Desktop Board Pricing As part of the monthly price move on boxed desktop boards several SKUs will change price effective August 25th, 2002. Several board prices are changing including SKU's from the following board families: D850EMV2/MD2, D845EBG2/PT2, D845GBV/RG, D845GLAD/LY, D815EGEW.

Boxed Desktop Boards are regularly scheduled for the first Sunday of the Intel® calendar month. The next four price moves are scheduled as follows:

* September 29th, 2002
* October 27th, 2002
* November, 24th 2002
* December 28th, 2002

New CPU Pricing and Rebates
Intel® is announcing additional Distributor Back End Rebates effective September 1, 2002 as well as changes to the previously published Pentium® III Processor pricing.

Price Move Changes:
Effective September 1, Desktop Pentium® III Processor price move to eliminate rebates (BER's) and communicate new September 1 pricing

Effective September 1, Celeron® Processor and below move to $50 to minimize rebate (BER) amounts (this was previously communicated)

Product Discontinuance News
Product Discontinuance Notification for the Intel® Desktop Board D815EFV Family Affected Product Codes:

BEFVLS3U
LABEFVLS3U
BLKD815EFVLU
KD815EFVLUPAK10
BOXD815EFVLU

Product Discontinuance Notification for the Intel® Desktop Board D815EEA2 and D815EPEA2 Families
Affected Product Codes

BEEA2PS1U
BLKD815EEA2LU
BOXD815EEA2LU
KD815EEA2UPAK10
BEEA2PLS2U
BLKD815EEA2U
BOXD815EEA2U
KD815EE2LUPAK10
BEEA2S5U
BLKD815EPEA2U
BOXD815EPEA2U
KD815EPE2UPAK10
BEEA2LS3U

Product Discontinuance Notification for the Intel® Desktop Board D850MD Family
Affected Product Codes

BLKD850MD
BLKD850MDL
KD850MDPAK10
KD850MDLPAK10
BOXD850MD
BOXD850MDL

Product Discontinuance Notification for the Intel® Desktop Board D850MV Family
Affected Product Codes

BLKD850MV
BLKD850MVL
KD850MVPAK10
KD850MVLPAK10
BOXD850MV
BOXD850MVL

New Product Introductions
Intel® introduces the Intel® Celeron® processor at 2 GHz with 400 MHz system bus in the 478-pin package Intel® Celeron® processor at 2 GHz with 400 MHz system bus in the 478-pin package brings Intel's advanced technology for the desktop processor to the Value segment. Features include: 400 MHz system bus; Streaming SIMD Extensions 2; 478-pin package. Benefits include: High bandwidth between the processor and the rest of the system improves throughput and performance; Pin compatible with the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor allows flexibility in platform options
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Intel® Introduces the Desktop Board D845GVAD2
The Intel® Desktop Board D845GVAD2 delivers an integrated graphics solution with essential features for the Intel® Pentium® 4 and Intel® Celeron® processors in the mPGA478-pin package with Intel® Netburst(tm) microarchitecture. This desktop board features the Intel® 845GV chipset with support for processors with 533-MHz or 400-MHz system bus, and up to 2 GB of DDR 266 SDRAM memory. Desktop Board D845GVAD2 delivers remarkable value and flexibility with four PCI slots, Hi-Speed USB 2.0, and optional integrated LAN.

Announcing a Low Profile version of our Gigabit Desktop Adapter
Due to customer interest, Intel will begin manufacturing a low profile version of our latest Gigabit Desktop Adapter, the Intel® PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter. It is designed for the PCI slots in Small Form Factor Desktop Chassis and offers the same features as the full height Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter.