Posted 23/05/2000 9:18am by Mike Magee
Itanium prices, specs revealed
Just to show that Intel treats everyone differently, here we embark on the first story of many over the next day or two about the future plans Chipzilla has in store for us.
Yesterday, we revealed details of the roadmap Intel has just dished out to its distributors and dealers, which only covers boxed desktop chips, including the Celeron and the Timna. This roadmap is entirely different from the latest one we've seen -- it's for OEMs -- but not the top OEM, the Dell Corporation.
First off, here are the prices and some of the specifications for the Itanium processor, when you buy them in quantities of 1,000.
The 800/266 with 4MB of cache will cost a staggering $4,227 at launch, the 800/266 Itanium with 2MB of cache will cost $1,980 at launch, the 733/266 Itanium with 4MB of cache will cost a staggering $4,227 at launch, and the 733/266 Itanium with 2MB of cache will cost $1,177. Surely some mistake here, vis-a-vis the 800/266 and the 733/266, which are priced the same? But that's what the roadmap says.
Later, we will reveal pricing for other of Intel's server products and reveal that Foster, the server version of Willamette, has slipped to Q1 next year, with volume coming in late Q1. Also, we are now faced with a barrage of fresh code names. So be gentle, while we attempt to sift through 30 pages of notes we took.
By the way, the roadmaps Intel shows journalists are by-and-large, very bland confections indeed. We suppose this is on a need-to-know basis... ©
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