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Pentium 4-M to Get Popular by Summer. [03/26/2002 11:43 PM]
by Anna Filatova
As is known, Pentium 4-M CPUs are not that popular among the notebook makers so far. The reason lies again with an incredible price difference between Pentium 4-M and their desktop analogues. Take, for instance, Pentium 4-V working at 1.6GHz and 1.7GHz. They now cost $401 and $508 in 1,000-unit quantities respectively. However, the desktop Pentium 4 working at the same frequencies sell at $133 and $163 correspondingly. And what’s the reason of paying so much extra? For the support of Enhanced SpeedStep, Deep Sleep and Deeper Sleep, which only reduce the CPU working frequency depending on the actual workload? By the way, these technologies do not play into Intel’s hands yet, as many testers couldn’t test the notebooks built on Pentium 4-M properly, because they appeared unable to figure out when the CPU was running at the nominal clock and when at the slowed down clock.

As a result, more and more manufacturers tend to produce notebooks based on desktop processors rather than on the specifically designed mobile ones (for example, ASUS’ new notebooks). It allows reducing the product cost significantly. For example, Toshiba Satellite 5000 (Pentium 4-M 1.7GHz) and Satellite 1900 (Pentium 4 1.7GHz) differing only by the CPU, cost $2499 and $1999 respectively. Well, this difference is very tangible, don’t you agree?

Luckily, the prices on Intel Pentium 4-M CPUs should be reduced a lot by summer: 1.7GHz will drop down to about $250 (over 50% price reduction!) and 1.6GHz model will drop down to $210 (over 47% price reduction). Digitimes claims that this event should happen on May 26, and the remaining two months Pentium 4-M CPUs will spend quietly in stock...

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