Here is some more news from Intel. Our non-official sources have told us about this quarter the company plans to sell 50% more Pentium 4 CPUs than it managed to sell last quarter. It’s nice to hear that considering the lack for these CPUs we suffered in the end of 2001.
Such a drastic increase in Pentium 4 production quantities is provoked by an active migration to the 0.13-micron technology which is now introduces at four Intel fabs manufacturing 200mm wafers. Over 2002 two more fabs are expected to start serial production of 300mm wafers (we have already related this fact). Intel assumes that 0.13-micron Pentium 4 CPUs shipping quantities will exceed those of 0.18-micron in the second half of 2002.