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To: Jill who wrote (120770)	4/27/1999 9:03:00 AM
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- Intel unveils fastest Celeron chip Intel said that the chipset will be available in June and that Dell Computer Corp. <DELL.O> and International Business Machines Corp. <IBM.N> plan to launch new PCs with the fastest Celeron and the chipset at that time. In the San Francisco story headlined "Intel unveils fastest Celeron chip, new chip set" please read in the 6th paragraph ... "It reduces the cost (of the total PC at retail) by..." instead of ... "It reduces the cost of the motherboard by..." (Fixes incorrect reference to motherboard). A corrected repetition follows. SAN FRANCISCO, April 26 (Reuters) - Semiconductor maker Intel Corp. <INTC.O> introduced its fastest chip yet for the low end of the PC market, a Celeron chip running at 466 megahertz, in an ongoing drive to gain market share in the low-cost consumer segment. Intel also launched a chipset to work with the Celeron, adding more functions and reducing the overall cost of a PC motherboard, the main board of a personal computer. "We are deadly serious about this segment," said Paul Otellini, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's architecture business group, at a press briefing. "We are very very cognisant that this is where the growth is." Otellini pointed to data released over the weekend by two leading market research firms which showed that PC unit shipments saw better-than-expected growth, including an unexpected surge in the low-end consumer sector. The chipset, called the Intel 810 chipset, integrates three dimensional graphics and enables software-based audio, modem and digital versatile disk functions that would typically require additional add-in cards. "It reduces the cost (of the total PC at retail) by $50 to $100, Intel said that the chipset will be available in June and that Dell Computer Corp. <DELL.O> and International Business Machines Corp. <IBM.N> plan to launch new PCs with the fastest Celeron and the chipset at that time. depending on their price points," Otellini said. Other PC makers, including Compaq Computer Corp. <CPQ.N>, Hewlett-Packard Co. <HWP.N>, and Gateway Inc. <GTW.N> are launching new systems with the Celeron 466 this week. Intel said that the 466 megahertz Celeron is priced at $169, in quantites of 1,000. The Intel 810 chipset will range in price from $25.50 to $32, depending on the cache memory, in quantities of 10,000.