Intel slashes prices by up to 54 percent on mobile chips
infoworld.com
Just a quick followup. The world's not standing still here, I note this article mostly for the current pricing info.
In an unusually deep round of cuts, the chip vendor slashed the price of its 500-MHz Mobile Pentium III processor by 54 percent, from $530 to $245, according to information on Intel's Web site. Prices of 450-MHz and 400-MHz versions of the chip also fell sharply, by as much as 46 percent. ...
They moved all the mobile Celeron pricing to below $100 to compete with the AMD K6-II, which is selling very well in the value mobile space," Krewell said. . . .
-- The price of 450-MHz Mobile Pentium III and 400-MHz Mobile Pentium III processors each dropped 46 percent, from $348 to $187. Despite running at different clock speeds, the chips are priced the same; the 400-MHz version operates at a lower voltage level and is designed for ultraportable notebooks.
-- The price of the 400-MHz Mobile Pentium II processor dropped 45 percent, from $358 to $198. Other mobile Pentium II prices remained unchanged.
-- The 433-MHz Mobile Celeron fell in price by 53 percent, from $159 to $75. The price of the 400-MHz version fell 34 percent, from $106 to $70. The price of the 366-MHz Mobile Celeron remained unchanged at $85.
I don't know, these are all looking pretty cheap, and pretty fast too. And while AMD may or may not know what it's doing on power, Intel does have this Geyserville stuff. And this stuff is all shipping, in quantity, now. I think Transmeta's got its work cut out for it.
Cheers, Dan.
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