Intel lops Pentium 4 prices
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Newest P4 chips, the 500 series, drop in price by 18 percent to 35 percent; a host of other chips are cheaper now as well.
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Earlier this week, AMD's introduction of the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ processor at the $464 suggested price point signaled the start of CPU price reductions in its midrange segment. But since that time, pre-order prices for the 6000+ have risen, not fallen; and meanwhile, street prices for Intel CPUs have declined a tick or two, according to Pricewatch.
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bizpile writes &quot;It was reported earlier that Intel would be delaying the release of their 4Ghz Pentium 4 chips, but it now appears that they will be cancelling them altogether.
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Intel is moving to reduce its chip inventory and make way for new products by deeply discounting some of its Pentium 4 and Itanium processors.
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Intel today launched its latest mobile Pentium chip designed for use in high-end desktop replacement laptops. The Pentium 4M 548 runs at 3.33GHz with 1MB Level 2 cache, and is built around Intel&#39;s latest 90nanometre technology.
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Single-core products still present, despite rumours AMD today took the axe to its desktop processor price list, knocking up to almost 30 per cent off what it charges for its gaming, mainstream and budget CPUs, as expected. Still, an much-anticipated move to drop single-core chips from the line-up did not take place.â¦
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[Technology India]: New York, Oct 19 : The world&#39;s leading computer chipmaker Intel has jumped off the chip speed roller coaster by yanking its four giga hertz (4 GHz) Pentium 4 processor off the drawing board.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini served notice at the company's recent developer conference that the megahertz era was coming to a close, and the decision Thursday to remove the 4GHz Pentium 4 processor from its road map is clear evidence that Intel has once and for all kicked its speed habit, according to industry analysts.ADVERTISEMENTSBC Case Study: Crate & BarrelWhat sold them on improving their network? A system that could cut management costs from the get-go. Find out more.
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Intel Corp. INTC.O cut prices on its chips for mobile computers by as much as 34 percent this week, a move that could lower PC prices from the likes of Dell Inc.
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System builders say Intel&#39;s latest price cuts will help them clear out old inventory and should move the sweet spot of the company&#39;s processor lineup to the 3GHz Pentium 4 from the 2.8GHz Pentium 4. After
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Mobile chip makes inroads as prices drop and Intel de-emphasizes clock speed.
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The Intel Corporation said on Thursday that it was canceling its plans to market a faster version of its Pentium 4 chip for personal computers to focus on products with &quot;more bang for the buck.
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Intel&#39;s revenue increase for the fourth quarter fell short of analysts&#39; estimates in part because of weak prices for memory chips.The company recorded revenue of $10.7 billion, up 10.5 percent year over year, missing the $10.8 billion estimated by analysts polled by Thomson Financial.Though revenue from computing-related products was as expected, NAND memory revenue was lower than expected, Intel said in a news release.The company reported net income of $2.27 billion, below analysts&#39; estimates of $2.38 billion. Earnings per share were $0.38.Intel in November rolled out its next-generation Penryn processors,&#160;which the company claims provide better power efficiency and graphics performance than its earlier chips. Manufactured using the 45-nanometer process, the company first launched Penryn chips for workstations and in early January rolled out 45-nm chips for servers, laptops, and desktops.Intel is expected to launch processors for its Montevina platform, an upgrade to its mobile Centrino platform, later this year. It will also roll out Menlow, a platform for ultramobile computers, later this year. Intel is also working on a new chip architecture code-named Nehalem, which will appear in late 2008.
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(InfoWorld) - Intel is making samples of itsÂ Penryn server chipsÂ widely available to computer makers ahead of a planned product launch during the fourth quarter, a company executive said Wednesday. "We're now broadly sampling [Penryn] for all the various platforms," said John Antone, vice president and general manager of Intel Asia-Pacific, in a telephone interview. PenrynÂ is the code name given to the 45-nanometer versions of Intel's processors. The server version of the Penryn chips will be the first to hit the market, followed by mobile and desktop chips. Intel hasn't said publicly when the Penryn launch will happen, except to say the chips will be available during the fourth quarter. The company hopes the chips willÂ keep up the pressureÂ on rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which has seen its server market share shrink in recent months. The Penryn launch will happen after AMD's upcoming server chip, calledÂ Barcelona, hits the market. Originally scheduled for a mid-year launch, the quad-coreÂ Barcelona chips will begin shippingÂ in August, and will be available in servers from September. AMD is betting the server chip's design and performance will stem its market share losses, butÂ Intel remains confidentÂ that Penryn will extend its lead. Preparations for Penryn's impending launch come as Intel appears to have regained its mojo, following several missteps last year. On Tuesday,Â Intel reportedÂ a 44-percent increase in second-quarter profit, to $1.3 billion. Lower selling prices for its microprocessors during the period were offset by higher than expected unit shipments, the company said. Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan, accounted for 51 percent of Intel's $8.7 billion second-quarter sales, largely because so many of the world's computers are manufactured in the region, the company said. That figure does not reflect where those computers are bought by end users. When looked at from a consumption basis, processor shipments to end users in the three main regions -- the Americas; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and Asia -- are roughly equal, with each accounting for about one-third of unit shipments, Antone said. Â
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AMD released two extremely powerful chips recently after Intel had to back down from the plan of manufacturing a 4GHz version of their Pentium 4 processor.
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(InfoWorld) - Intel said its quarterly profit rose 44 percent over last year, reaching $1.3 billion as low selling prices for its microprocessors were offset by higher than expected unit shipments. The results came despite an ongoing price war as Intel and rival AMD struggle for larger shares of the processor market. Both companies have been cutting prices on their chips as they upgrade their products from standard chips to dual-core and quad-core processors. Intel is also in the final stages of a corporate reorganization that included the layoffs of thousands of workers in 2006, and at least 1,800 more layoffs planned for August. The company incurred restructuring charges of $82 million during the most recent quarter as it continued to adjust to the changes, Intel said on Tuesday. Despite those challenges, Intel earned $0.22 per share on revenue of $8.7 billion for the quarter ending June 30, beating Wall Street expectations that the company would earn $0.19 per share on revenue of $8.54 billion, according to analysts polled by Thomson Financial. Intel also beat its own mark from the second quarter of 2006, when it earned $0.15 per share on revenue of $8.01 billion.
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Investors not impressed Strong notebook and server chip sales carried Intel to a second quarter that neared the high end of previous forecasts. Investors, however, seemed unmoved by the results, as Intel noted strong pricing competition in the desktop market and a reliance on cost-cutting measures to gloss its results.â¦