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'Prescott' pricing strategy
[link=http://www.theinquirer.net]The Inquirer[/link] has an article up looking at Intel's pricing strategy for the new Pentium 4 'Prescott'.
[blockquote]There are some important things to note here. Intel's short term strategy is to displace existing Northwood cores with Prescott cores, but late last week we were being told that even mighty distributors like Ingram Micro weren't able to supply all the speed grades that will displace the old ones.
If Intel launches its 3.4GHz Pentium 4 with 2MB L3 cache at the same time as the Prescott, we believe that's something of a smokescreen. Note that this is ultimately based on the Xeon MP "Gallatin" core, and this chip won't be available in quantity. Even though it's being positioned as an "extreme gaming" chip, its price indicates that it's not in the mainstream.
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[link=http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13924]Read more[/link]
[blockquote]There are some important things to note here. Intel's short term strategy is to displace existing Northwood cores with Prescott cores, but late last week we were being told that even mighty distributors like Ingram Micro weren't able to supply all the speed grades that will displace the old ones.
If Intel launches its 3.4GHz Pentium 4 with 2MB L3 cache at the same time as the Prescott, we believe that's something of a smokescreen. Note that this is ultimately based on the Xeon MP "Gallatin" core, and this chip won't be available in quantity. Even though it's being positioned as an "extreme gaming" chip, its price indicates that it's not in the mainstream.
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[link=http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13924]Read more[/link]
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