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Intel Cuts P4 Prices

Intel Corp. over the weekend cut prices on its 64-bit line of desktop processors. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker reduced the cost of its five single-core Pentium 4 6xx chips from 20.15 percent to 33.72 percent. All feature 2MB of Level 2 cache and an 800MHz front-side bus, with the key difference being the […]

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Jeffrey Burt

Aug 15, 2005

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Intel Corp. over the weekend cut prices on its 64-bit line of desktop processors.

The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker reduced the cost of its five single-core Pentium 4 6xx chips from 20.15 percent to 33.72 percent.

All feature 2MB of Level 2 cache and an 800MHz front-side bus, with the key difference being the frequency of the chips. The largest price cut was in the 3.6GHz Pentium 4 660, which dropped from $605 per 1,000 units shipped to $401. Pricing on the 3.4GHz 650 was slashed 31.92 percent, from $401 to $273.

The 3.8GHz 670 was cut by 28.91 percent, to $605, followed by the 3GHz 630, to $178, and the 3.2GHz 640, to $218.

Intel has begun pushing its dual-core chips, and started rolling out the capability in its Pentium line, first with the high-end Pentium Extreme Edition in April, and then with the Pentium D chip in May.

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Intel also has begun seeding servers with dual-core Xeon processors, which initially were scheduled for general availability early next year. However, Intel announced Monday that its dual-core Xeon MP processor—code-named “Paxville”—will come out later this year.

The seeding program enables potential customers to evaluate the dual-core processors in advance of the official release.

Rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., already has launched dual-core capabilities in its server Opteron processors and PC Athlon 64 chips.

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Jeffrey Burt

Jeffrey Burt has been a journalist for more than three decades, the last 20-plus years covering technology. During more than 16 years with eWEEK, he covered everything from data center infrastructure and collaboration technology to AI, cloud, quantum computing and cybersecurity. A freelance journalist since 2017, his articles have appeared on such sites as eWEEK, eSecurity Planet, Enterprise Networking Planet, Enterprise Storage Forum, Channel Insider, The Next Platform, ITPro Today, Channel Futures, Channelnomics, SecurityNow, and Data Breach Today.

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