Replies to post #12763 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[alan81]

90nm ramp!
I was surprised by a visit to best buy yesterday. Every desktop except one was a prescott! All the celeron machines were 3xx series, and many of the Pentiums were the new 5xx series. There was one 2.8Ghz northwood system, as the lone 130nm product. I checked out the circuit city web site, and they are in the same position with only a single northwood system left on the product list.
It seems Intel has succeeded in converting the entire product line to 90nm prior to AMD releasing any 90nm products.

I also just read over on Aces about a new windows XP lite that is significantly restricted in features... and I assume cost as well. It seems with the new low cost processor and the new windows version they should be able to break the $200 barrier for retail system cost.
--Alan

[The Duke of URL]

"JMO" but an informed "O". Thanks.


Maybe this is the "China Killer" a $40 dollar chip coupled with MS's $10 dollar o/s. :))

[wbmw]

Semi, I don't agree with your analysis of Intel's new Celeronized Celeron. They had to have planned this product long before realizing a couple weeks ago that they had overcapacity. I think Shelton, or whatever it's called, is simply a way to penetrate the most price conscious underdeveloped markets. It ought to be very easy to sell up most buyers to a regular Celeron when this chip has no cache and clocks at 1GHz.

By the way, is this chip a scaled down Celeron M or Celeron D? I would think the former, since a scaled down Celeron D doesn't need to go much lower than 1.5GHz.