Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[SemiconEng]

SemiconEng, seems expensive for that EE -


Of course it is, it's supposed to be. Intel won't want or need anyone to buy 0.13u P4EE, once 0.09u P4E Prescott is released. I gave an explanation here. In about a week or so, Nobody is going to want 0.13u P4EE anymore, if they ever did.


http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2160931
More likely, as soon as 3.4 Prescott ships, P4EE will be shut off, and in a few months, after Prescott is established, and the line is purged, nobody is going to care anymore about P4EE, if they ever did to begin with.
Looks to me, like intel is once again using the same method to drive the market away from the previous technology to the newer one that it's used before. Price pointing the newer chip below the top of the line previous chip has been done by intel a few times now, as I recall.
My guess is, that most P4 Northwood production, will all be a memory by the end of summer 2004.

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