Tony & Intel Investors - Mendocino and 450 MHz Pentium IIs - August 24'th introduction.
This article is "zeroing" in on August 24 as the introduction date for the 300 and 333 MHz Mendocino/Celeron A and 450 MHz Pentium II.
Note the expected prices - $139 and $179 for the 300 and 333 Mhz Celeron A/Mendocinos.
I see AMD dropping their K6-2 prices on August 25 - AGAIN !
Paul
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news.com
450-MHz PCs to debut in August
By Michael Kanellos
Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
July 31, 1998, 5:25 p.m. PT
A slew of new PCs will emerge on August 24
when Intel releases two new versions of the
low-cost Celeron processor and a 450-MHz
Pentium II.
IBM, Packard Bell NEC, and others will
release--or at least announce--new
consumer and business systems ranging in
price from around $1,100 to $2,400,
depending on the processor, according to
sources familiar with these companies.
The new Celerons will spearhead Intel's effort
to regrab market share in the sub-$1,000
segment. The Santa Clara-based giant has
been losing ground to AMD, according to PC
Data. As a rule, AMD chips are priced 25
percent below "equivalent" Pentium II chips,
making them attractive for PC vendors
looking to deliver inexpensive systems to
consumers.
Running at 300 MHz and 333 MHz, the new
Celerons will also improve upon the
performance of the first Celeron chips.
Code-named Mendocino, the new chips will
contain 128K of integrated "cache" memory.
Pentium II-core chips like the Celeron were
designed to work with this secondary
memory, but Intel removed the cache to
reduce cost, a move which lead to a
degradation in performance.
The upcoming Celerons will further be the
first Pentium II-level chips to have an
integrated cache. In standard Pentium II
processors, a 512K secondary cache sits
alongside the processor, but is not
integrated into the same piece of silicon.
Integration is expected to lead to better
performance. An integrated Pentium II with
256K of secondary cache, code-named
Dixon, is expected early next year.
The new Celerons will be designated by a
capital "A" to distinguish them from ordinary
cache-less Celerons.
The 300-MHz Celeron A is expected to cost
$139 in volume while the 333-MHz Celeron A
is expected to cost $179, according to
Ashok Kumar, semiconductor analyst with
Piper Jaffray.
Meanwhile, the 450-MHz Pentium II is
expected to cost $665 in volume, according
to other sources. Intel earlier said that it
would release the new chips for the "back to
school" time frame. Computer executives
and analysts have said that the event will
take place on August 24.
Intel is an investor in CNET: The Computer
Network.
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