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INTC 40.56+10.2%Nov 28 9:30 AM EST

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To: greenspirit who wrote (288)4/20/1997 4:58:00 PM
From: Jake   of 990
 
This is not great news. One of the factors that has kept Intel stock down was the fear of a pricing war.

>The first round of those cuts will begin next week (April 28), when >the Santa Clara, Calif.-chipmaker announces its scheduled second >quarter price reductions, according to OEM and channel sources.

> Second quarter pricing includes drastic cuts to Intel's older >chip models, such as the 200 megahertz Pentium, which will drop 48 >percent to $257. The chip's price will fall further to $150 in August >and to $123 in November, representing a free-fall of 75 percent in >ten months.

> Just a few months ago, a 200-megahertz Pentium was considered a >high-end desktop processor that was in short supply.

It seems to me that this announcment confirms this.
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