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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (42933)12/7/1998 4:43:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1572952
 
<Intels segmentation strategy, creating the fasade that the Pentium II is a better chip than the CeleronA, is working.>

How about just plain old confusion in the market?

I mentioned the Celeron to an old friend of mine who wants me to build a PC for him. He originally had the impression that the Celeron is slower than the Pentium. I had to explain to him that the Celeron 300A and the 333 have 128K of on-die cache, so it performs on-par with an equivalently-clocked Pentium II. (Then I had to explain the concept behind an L2 cache, etc.)

(Side note to Jim: CeleronA is somewhat of a misnomer. The 'A' suffix only applies to the 300 MHz speed grade, i.e. the Celeron 300 and the Celeron 300A. In other words, there is no such thing as a Celeron 333A; all Celeron 333 CPUs have on-die L2 cache.)

I also mentioned Celeron to another friend of mine and she was wondering whether that was an Intel chip or not.

Much of this confusion comes from Intel's own marketing. As we all know, the Celeron is alive and well, but we're not seeing Homer's brain upgraded to a Celeron now, are we? Seems like the average retail consumers who *should* be buying Celerons over Pentium II's are the very ones that don't know about the Celeron in the first place.

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