Intel Investors - Intel Cuts price on Mobile Pentium II & Pentium CPUs
Mobile Pentium II/266 goes from $637 to $444,
Mobile Pentium II/233 goes from $391 to $262
Mobile Pentium MMX/266 goes from $348 to $241.
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Intel cuts mobile chip prices
By Brooke Crothers
Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
June 29, 1998, 2 p.m. PT
URL: news.com
Intel cut prices on its processors for portable PCs, paving the way for more Pentium notebooks priced
around the closely watched $1,000 watermark.
The price cuts should precipitate "price compression" similar to that which has occurred in the desktop
market. Price compression is a phenomenon in which prices for computer products consolidate in narrower
bands, closer to the low end of the spectrum, shaving the margins of PC vendors and reducing their profits.
At the high end of the pricing spectrum, Pentium II notebooks now priced well above
$4,000 at many of the major vendors could fall to more reasonable levels as a result of
the cuts. Plunging prices for other components such as memory
chips and LCD screens should conspire to bring some Pentium
II notebooks into the $2,000 to $3,000 range over the next few
months.
Meanwhile, more notebook PCs with low-end 166- and 200-MHz
Pentium MMX chips should begin to appear around the $1,000
price level.
Also today, Intel released its Xeon chip for high-end workstations and servers. The
pricey chip is expected to help the chipmaker recover sagging margins, which
drooped to 54 percent last quarter.
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