Prescott Pricing Reviealed... timeline provided

[bobindashadows]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11352

WHILE THE NEXT MAJOR desktop price revision for Pentium 4s comes on October the 26th, as we've detailed before, there will be a major price shift again in February next year as Intel begins to substitute the current Northwood generation of chips to Prescott.

Prescott volume pricing will give price parity throughout 2004, as Intel releases more and more desktop CPUs which include hyperthreading, a 800MHz front side bus, the famous Louis XIII Prescott New Instructions and all on 90 nanometer technology. Intel is obviously confident it can make the switch with few problems at all.

Frequencies of the desktop chips are broadly in line with the August roadmap details we published, but on the 5th of November Intel will introduce a 2.8GHz desktop Celeron processor at $117, while the 2.7GHz will be released on the 24th of September next. Price cuts for Celerons come on the 26th of October, with a 2.4GHz chip costing $70, and a 2.5GHz Celeron $80. The 2.7GHz Celeron will be introduced at $102. µ

* PRESCOTT (PSC) include Hyperthreading, 800MHz front side buses, PNI, 90 nanometer technology, and 1MB cache. The table shows how the Northwood will be displaced over the next nine to 10 months. Note that where the same frequency for the Pentium 4 appears twice, these represent 533MHz and 800MHz FSB versions of the same chip.

 

[tpjunkie]

Why the sad face? it's still no G5

 

[MacsRgr8]

No surprizes here.
3.4 GHz to start with... not a real big deal. 3.6 GHz in Feb. To be honest, it seems the super-scaling of the P4 is done. No more out-of-the-roof MHz bumping.
Q4: PSC on 3.8 GHz. Steve said the G5 would be at 3 GHz by then. We caught up! I would like to see these two head to head: Dual 3.0 GHz G5 (running Panther only ofcourse) vs. PSC 3.8 GHz (running XP, I guess... no Longhorn yet )

 

[Chealion]

The Celeron only $80?!? Thats still $80 very wasted. I've never seen a more useless processor. The only thing it has is clock speed, but no ability to do much else. I feel sorry for the people who get sucked in by the low price for an even lower quality chip.

 

[plinkoman]

those specs really don't sound that bad, deffinately be good for a linux box instead of my 2.2ghz linux box with half the cache, half the bus speed, and almost half the cpu speed....

 

[Ambrose Chapel]

Prescott is the "Fritz chip" correct? No amount of speed can overcome the DRM.

 

[Abstract]

..........I hope the Intel plant burns down........