Jim, I did not mean that INTC has stopped selling Socket 7 chips, only that they have allegedly stopped making wafers:
Celeron foisted on industry
Yet the PC makers have little choice but to use the new processor. Soon
supplies of the Pentium MMX processor, currently used in several
sub-$1,000 solutions, will run out.
Intel has stopped producing the wafers used for manufacturing the Pentium
MMX, said Otellini in a PC Week interview on Tuesday. The 266MHz
Celeron is priced at $155 in lots of 1,000.
With no new processors coming out of the fabs, PC can choose: Intel's
Celeron or a competing processor.
The question is, do the OEM's really think they have a viable choice? IBM and CPQ think so, the rest???
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