That means a fairly biggish price cut on Pentium 4 3.06GHz parts, 2.8GHz P4s, 2.66GHz Pentium 4s, 2.53GHz Pentium 4s, and the 2.4GHz and the 2.2GHz Pentium 4s will turn into has beens.
The next big intro for the Pentium 4 desktop chip is the 3.20GHz part, which is slated to debut at a price of $637.
There are also expected to be price changes on some of Intel's server chips.
No price changes are expected on notebook CPUs, according to roadmaps we saw in mid-January.
It's possible that Intel may have ripped up all its plans and started again.
It always says that's an option for its roadmaps. We'll ask the firm, tomorrow. ยต
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