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To: Paul Engel who wrote (161318)	3/7/2002 12:31:58 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

These Pentium 4 Chip Set prices - and dates - seem to suggest that the new chip sets to support integrated graphics and 533 MHz FSB will be available (to OEMs ) as of April 1, 2002. xbitlabs.com Wednesday, March 06, 2002 Intel Chipset Prices [7:02 pm] Gavric This week Intel renewed its system logic set price list intended for mainboard manufacturers. Here you may get familiar with those prices: Current Price 1 April 30 June i850 $40 $38 $38 i850E $40 $40 i845G $46 $43 i845E $41 $38 i845 $39 $37 $33 i845GL $33 $31 Our comments: The most important conclusion that we make looking at this table is that the shipments of the new generation logic set supporting Pentium 4 with 533 MHz system bus will start on April, 1. Therefore, by the middle of May, when those processors would be officially announced, corresponding mainboards will be widely available. Here are a few facts based on easy calculations. The 533 MHz system bus support is priced $2 by Intel (the difference in price of i850 and i850E which are different only in supported system bus frequency). Intel asks some more $2 for USB 2.0 support (the difference in price of i845 and i845E minus $2 "for the 533 MHz system bus"). The graphics core of i845G is priced higher –$5 (the difference between prices of i845E and i845G). It’s curious to compare the prices of i845GL and i845 (the first has integrated graphics, the latter – AGP 4x support): it turns out that the external AGP 4x support costs $4 more than embedded graphics core. Though, this time the low price of i845GL is caused by marketing reasons: i845GL will be oriented by Intel to cheap systems based on Celeron (Willamette-128). The price of i850E will at first be higher than that of DDR-enabled logic sets, though by the end of July the situation is going to reverse. Evidently, now Intel wants to get rid of its stocks of i850/i850E.