As we have already told you here, Intel is going to start shipping the new Celeron 1Ghz and 1.1Ghz on Tualatin/256 core in the beginning of January. Compared with the today’s Celeron processors on Coppermine/128 core the new Celeron (Tualatin/256) will have a twice as large L2 cache, however their FSB frequency will remain only 100MHz.
As The Inquirer mentioned today, new Celeron CPUs will cost like the older Celeron processors on Coppermine/128 core although their performance will be much higher. That is why the supplies of the old Celeron processors with 1GHz and 1.1GHz core clock will be stopped. Moreover, in the beginning of January Intel will announce one more CPU from this family built on Tualatin/256 core and working at 1.2GHz frequency: Celeron 1.3GHz (256KB L2 cache, 100MHz FSB).
This way, starting from the very beginning of 2002 Intel Celeron family will include 4 models built on 0.13micron Tualatin core: Celeron 1.0AGHz costing $74, Celeron 1.1AGHz costing $89, Celeron 1.2GHz already selling for $104 and Celeron 1.3GHz costing $125 in 1,000-unit quantities.