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Intel Launches Celeron 2.30 and 2.40GHz Processors.

They are Now Legal and Official

by Anton Shilov
03/31/2003 | 05:36 PM

Intel today officially introduced its Celeron processors at 2.40 and 2.30GHz that were seen for sale in Japan this weekend (see this news-story). Based on Intel's 0.13 micron process technology, the processors utilize Socket 478 package, feature 400MHz Quad Pumped Bus and 128KB of L2 cache.

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In 1000-unit quantities, the desktop Intel Celeron processor at 2.40GHz is priced at $127 and the 2.30GHz is priced at $117. I remind you that the Celeron 2.20GHz costs $103, the 2.10GHz version is priced at $89, the 2.0GHz chips are sold for $83 per unit,  while the lowest-end models at 1.80 and 1.70GHz based on the 0.18 micron Willamette-128 core are priced at $69 and $54 respectively.

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