In April, Intel dropped the price of the 1.7 P4 to below the level of the 1.5 GHz P4 and barely above the current price of the 1.33 Athlon. Now THAT was stupid. Intel had NO competition from AMD at 1.5 and 1.7 GHz, right?
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Chipzilla will make further, large, price cuts to its Pentium 4 range on the 29th of April when it will now introduce the boxed Pentium 4 at 1.7GHz. This will arrive in two boxed versions, depending on the amount of Rambus bundled.
The Pentium 4 1.5GHz price will then plunge by 51 per cent, the Pentium 4 1.4GHz price will slump by 48 per cent, and the Pentium 4 1.3GHz price will fall by 27 per cent.
A few days later:
By Mike Magee, 23 April 2001 06.12 BST
THE INTEL CORPORATION today upped the stakes in its price war with AMD by
introducing its fastest desktop processor, a 1.7GHz Pentium 4, at a price of $352.
The unexpectedly low price, predicted here, and at the beginning of April, will cause a
domino effect in the rest of the Pentium 4 family, with price cuts across the range. Intel
made smaller cuts on its Pentium 4 family just two weeks ago.
Why didn't Intel try to maximize profits by keeping the 1.5 and 1.7's priced far above the TBird 1.33?
Is there something wrong with these products?
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