Joey, re: Pricing control
I ran across a roadmap article from July of 1996. This is nearly a year and a half ago:
zdnet.com
PCWeek,
July 26, 1996 6:00 PM ET
"Intel will introduce 200MHz and 233MHz versions of its Klamath processor, the cacheless Pentium Pro with the MMX (Multimedia Extension) instruction set for the high-end desktop market, during the first half of 1997, according to sources close to the company.
The initial wholesale price for the chip will be around $325,according to sources, while the P55c chip, a 200MHz Pentium with MMX, will sell for $250.
The Santa Clara, Calif., company plans to hike the clock speed of Klamath, named after a river in California, to 266MHz by midyear."
Now I have to read that Intel had its prices "forced down by competition" and "cuts deeper than expected" and other such nonsense. I find that P/MMX-200 going for $210 OEM, $250 boxed, today. The only thing that this press has wrong is PII has a cache and the high end speeds are higher.
I think its time to listen to the company and bank it.
Jeff |
