Replies to post #2060 on Intel Corp (INTC)

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Elmer, Re: The Intel official said Chinese consumers are buying high performance processors as soon as they come on the market, following the same sales pattern as the rest of the world. He said the new 2.6-GHz and 2.8-GHz Pentium 4 chips are selling in China at the same rate as in the rest of the world.

Intel's new 64-bit Itanium 2 processor has also been selected by several major Chinese server firms, including Legend Computers and Langchao, he said. "Itanium will find its way into the Chinese marketplace."

This part is the best news of all. So much for the theories that emerging nations would force ASPs even lower. China proves that that may not be the case. Chinese companies adopting Itanium 2 is a tremendous vote of confidence in the price/performance of the new architecture.

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