People familiar with plans of Intel Corporation disclosed today that the Santa Clara, California-based semiconductor giant decided to lower prices of its Pentium 4 processors two weeks earlier than expected originally.

According to the most recent plans of Intel, the company kicks off new Pentium 4 processors on Prescott core with SSE3 and 1MB of L2 cache and also publishes the new price-lists on all of its microprocessors on the 2^nd of February 2004, which is 10 days from now. According to initial information about February’s price-drop, the co wanted to lower chip pricing on the 15^th of February.

Here is how Intel’s price-list on desktop processors will look like starting from the mentioned date:

The Prescott 3.60GHz chip will debut in the second quarter at $637 if the current plans remain unchanged, the Prescott 3.80GHz processor will be launched on the Q3 2004 at the same price-point.