Price Waterfall on Intel CPUs Accelerated

by Anton Shilov
01/21/2004 | 04:07 PM

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:

Intel Performance Desktop Processors' Pricing
Model	Prices
	26, October	2, February
Pentium 4 XE 3.40GHz	-	$999
Pentium 4 XE 3.20GHz	-	$925
Prescott 3.40GHz	-	$417
Pentium 4 3.40GHz	-	$417
Prescott 3.20GHz	-	$278
Pentium 4 3.20GHz	$417	$278
Prescott 3.00GHz	-	$218
Pentium 4 3.00GHz	$278	$218
Pentium 4 3.06GHz (533MHz QPB)	$262	$218
Prescott 2.80GHz	-	$178
Pentium 4 2.80GHz (800MHz QPB)	$218	$178
Pentium 4 2.80GHz (533MHz QPB)	$193	$163
Pentium 4 2.60GHz	$178	-
Pentium 4 2.66, 2.53GHz (533MHz QPB)	$163	-

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.