Intel prepares 26th of May price drop

European distributors of Intel products say that the cuts will be deepest on the 2.4GHz and 2.2GHz Pentium 4, with drops of well over $150 on each of these parts.

Although Intel may make changes to the prices even at the last minute, distributors have notified their dealers of the guesses they're making as to the changes.

Intel now has a bewildering range of Pentium 4s, with 400MHz/533MHz flavours and different cache sizes.

This is what system integrators are expecting - we will get confirmation of the changes next week.

533MHz/512K Pentium 4s
2.26GHz - perhaps as much as $170
2.4GHz - over $150 price cut
2.53GHz - price likely to change the same

400MHz/512K Pentium 4s
1.6A - not expected to alter
1.8A - expected to drop over $25
2.0A - expected to drop by $85 or so
2.2GHz - fall of around $175
2.4GHz - drops by over $150

400MHz/256K Pentium 4s
1.6GHz - not expected to alter
1.7GHz -fall of around $19
1.8GHz - fall of about $31
1.9GHz - fall of about $50
2GHz - fall of about $65

Intel-made motherboards
D850MV cut by around $5; D845WN cut by about $6; D845BG cut by around $6; D850MD cut by around $3; D845HV cut by around $6; D845PT cut by around $10; D845GLLLY cut by around $2.50; D845GLAD cut by around $2.50; D850EMV2 a $5 cut; D845EBG2 cut by around $5; D845GBV cut by around $4.50; D850EMD2 cut by around $4.50; D845EP2 cut by around $5; D845GRG cut by around $4.50; D815EEA2U cut by around $2.50; D815EFVLU cut by around $2.50; D815EGEWLU cut by around $2.

The 815 chipset is not long for this world.

You can find projected future speed and price bumps on the Intel roadmap by clicking on this page. µ