New Celeron, price cuts from Intel
Published: 09 Jun 1998 09:42 BST
The 300MHz Celeron chip, is now priced at $159 (£97) per unit in 1,000-unit quantities, while pricing for the 266MHz Celeron chip, has been lowered from $155 (£95) to $106 (£65) in 1,000-unit quantities, a 32 percent decrease, said Carl Larson, product marketing manager at Intel.
Intel originally targeted a second-half 1998 release for the 300MHz Celeron chip, the early release could allow Intel to release technology based on its 3D, audio and video processing instruction set € code named Katmai - in the first quarter of 1999 instead of the second quarter as had been expected.
The Celeron chips, designed for computers selling at $1,200 (£736) or less, will eventually replace Intel's multimedia-enabled MMX Pentium chip family, Larson said. The newest chip speeds performance by between 11 and 35 percent over the 266MHz and the highest-performing MMX-enabled Pentium chips, he added.
Later this year, Intel is set to release a Celeron chip with an L2 memory cache, which will improve performance even more, company officials said.
OEMs introducing new products based upon the 300MHz Celeron chip include Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Packard Bell, Sony and Acer.
Price cuts on the Pentium and Pentium II microprocessor lines are as follows:
Price cuts
Pentium II Processor [April '98 Price] - [June '98] Price
400 MHz with 512K cache $824 (£505) $722 (£443)
350 MHz with 512K cache $621 (£381) $519 (£318)
333 MHz with 512K cache $492 (£302) $412 (£253)
300 MHz with 512K cache $375 (£230) $305 (£187)
266 MHz with 512K cache $246 (£151) $198 (£121)
233 MHz with 512K cache $198 (£121) $161 (£99)
Pentium Processor [April '98 Price] [June '98 Price]
233 MHz MMX $134 (£82) $106 (£65)
200 MHz MMX $95 (£58) $95 (£58)
166 MHz MMX $95 (£58) $95 (£58)
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