Slick - You'll like this one ! You think AMD is feeling the heat?
" A 466MHz Celeron is expected to
follow later in the first half. "
Did you know that Intel's costs for 300A Celeron, a 333 MHz Celeron, a 366 MHz Celeron, a 400 MHz Celeron and a 433 MHz Celeron may all be about the same?
Paul
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zdnet.com
Intel to step up release of
433MHz Celeron
By John G. Spooner, PC Week Online
February 3, 1999 1:03 PM ET
Intel Corp. is accelerating the rollout of
its next Celeron processor.
Following closely on the expected
late-February release of its 450MHz
and 500MHz Pentium III, the Santa
Clara, Calif., company plans to ship a
new 433MHz Celeron on March 15,
according to sources. The processor
was originally scheduled for release in
the second quarter.
A 466MHz Celeron is expected to
follow later in the first half.
Both new chips are expected to utilize
66MHz system bus architectures,
sources said. They will join the 366MHz
and 400MHz desktop and 266MHz and
300MHz mobile Celerons introduced in
January.
Coinciding with the new 433MHz chip,
Intel (INTC) will drop prices on existing
Celerons by 15 to 20 percent, sources
said. A 400MHz Celeron using Intel's
370 pin plastic pin grid array package,
for example, would fall in price from
$158 to about $120, the sources said.
Intel officials in Santa Clara, Calif.,
declined to comment.
In other news, Intel and Analog Devices
Inc., of Norwood, Mass., on
Wednesday announced a joint
development agreement to design a
digital signal processor core. DSPs
are used in a variety of applications,
including pagers and cellular phones.
The two companies will establish a joint
design group located in Austin, Texas.
The group will design the DSP core,
programmers' tools, and other
elements for third-party developers and
OEMs. The first DSP core design is
expected in the second half of 2000.
Although the companies will
collaborate on design, they will market
and sell products separately.
Intel can be reached at www.intel.com. |
