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To: Goutam who wrote (75147)	10/12/1999 11:49:00 AM
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theregister.co.uk _____________ Intel's Xeon chips to migrate downwards Chip giant Intel is expected to announce shortly a subtle change in its strategy on its high-end Xeon processors, bringing the server family much closer to the desktop family of chips. That has emerged after an investigation into the pricing of new Coppermine Pentium III and Xeon processors, which Intel will introduce in the week of the 25 October, as we exclusively revealed two days ago. Price lists seen by The Register show that there is not a great deal of price difference between a Coppermine Xeon and a Coppermine Pentium III. The price for ten boxed Coppermine Xeons at 733MHz is $865 each, while the price for ten boxed Coppermine 733MHz/133 is $805. Meanwhile, the price for ten boxed 667MHz Coppermine Xeons is $688, while the 667MHz PIII/100 is $632. A 600MHz Xeon is $533 when bought in quantities of ten boxes. These Xeons have 256K L2 cache, while the Pentium IIIs have 256K ECC cache and active cooling -- fans to you and me. ...... CUT ........ We have also learnt that Intel will offer a merchandise incentive programme (MIP) payment to its resellers of around $30 on chips costing over $600, of around $20 on chips costing between $300 and $500, and of $10 on processors costing less than $300. That means the prices of the parts will end up being cheaper for authorised members of this channel programme. © theregister.co.uk _____________ Hmm... if true; is Intel going for some kind of strange segmentation/differentiation, or is it to create customer confusion? Goutama