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Intel slashes chip prices up to 44 percent
News Intel this week slashed chip prices by up to 44 percent. Intel slashed its low-cost Celeron chips, cutting prices on the mobile version of the chip by up to 44 percent. Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices held its chip prices steady.
[June 1, 2000, 8:27]
One Year Ago: Intel to slash chip prices
News The chip behemoth will take big chunks out of its Pentium MMX line-up with 233MHz parts down from $594 to $378, 200MHz chips $492 to $247 and 166MHz devices reduced from $270 to $142. The new 133MHz MMX chip comes in at $176.
[June 11, 1998, 6:00]
Cyrix cuts chip prices
News Available now, PR166, PR200 and PR233 versions of the 6x86MX chip are priced at $105, $188 and $290 respectively. We are making MMX technology available to consumers at prices they can afford," said Steve Tobak, VP of corporate and channel...
[August 4, 1997, 14:54]
US Report: Intel chip prices to dip
News The first mobile Celerons will run on a 233MHz chip, with 266MHz and 300MHz CPUs to follow, sources said. A low-priced, limited-function chip set for Celeron portables, the 440DX, will debut in the first half of next year.
[July 13, 1998, 9:13]
Intel to slash and burn chip prices
News The chip behemoth will take big chunks out of its Pentium MMX line-up with 233MHz parts down from $594 to $378, 200MHz chips $492 to $247 and 166MHz devices reduced from $270 to $142. The new 133MHz MMX chip comes in at $176.
[June 11, 1997, 16:17]
One Year Ago: Cyrix cuts chip prices
News Available now, PR166, PR200 and PR233 versions of the 6x86MX chip are priced at $105, $188 and $290 respectively. We are making MMX technology available to consumers at prices they can afford," said Steve Tobak, VP of corporate and channel...
[August 4, 1998, 6:00]
Intel, AMD to trim chip prices
News Although the chip reductions have led to cheaper prices on performance PCs, both companies have felt an effect on the bottom line. The chip will run at 1.6GHz and likely outperform the 2GHz Pentium 4.
[October 29, 2001, 8:43]
AMD and Cyrix to cut chip prices
News AMD and Cyrix are on the verge of cutting their chip pricing following in the wake of Intel's Pentium II and Pentium MMX cuts this week. AMD is expected to cut prices in the next couple of days to bring it back in line with is policy to always be a...
[October 31, 1997, 16:02]
Intel shaves mobile chip prices
News The Centrino bundle includes a brand-new chip, code-named Banias, built especially for notebooks. A few months after that release, Intel intends to add a delayed wireless 802.11 a/b chip of its own making into the Centrino package.
[January 14, 2003, 7:48]
Intel to slash chip prices by over 40 percent
News Prices on the Pentium 4 will fall by more than 20 percent, pushing the chip deeper into the mainstream desktop PC market. That cut, along with Pentium III and Celeron discounts, will also bring Intel's chip prices more in line with those of rival...
[January 24, 2001, 9:10]
Intel cuts low-end chip prices
News It does so by reducing the price on the faster chip so that it's the same as the slower chip's price. It decreased the price of the 2.6GHz desktop chip by 14 percent, from $103 to $89. As expected, the chipmaker on Sunday cut list prices by as much...
[August 26, 2003, 10:20]
Intel chops desktop chip prices
News The chipmaker recently cut prices on its Pentium 4 chip by as much as 50 percent. Typically, a desktop Celeron chip starts around £105 and moves down the pricing ladder quickly. The chip was reduced by 24 percent from £222 to £169.
[May 30, 2001, 9:50]
Intel, AMD cut chip prices
News AMD also cut prices of its Duron chip by up to 17 percent. During most of last year, Intel and AMD brought high-end chip prices down quickly. Meanwhile, the 1.3GHz Celeron was reduced by 13 percent to $103, followed by an 11 percent drop for the...
[January 29, 2002, 12:17]
Intel slices and dices chip prices
News Intel's chip arch rival, Advanced Micro Devices, had already cut its prices on Aug.the same day it announced new Athlon XP 2400+ and 2600+ processors for desktop PCs. The weekend price cuts came, as expected, after the company last week began...
[September 4, 2002, 6:27]
Intel to lower chip prices Monday
News The PC makers use the information to plan their own price reductions and to plan new models based on the new, lower chip pricing. Intel will cut prices on its desktop Pentium II and Pentium III processors by as much as 41 percent on Monday, ZDNN...
[August 23, 1999, 8:21]
AMD cuts chip prices
News AMD, which has not reduced prices since mid-May, also reduced the price of its K6-III 400MHz chip by six percent, dropping it to $173. AMD's K6-2 475MHz desktop chip received the largest cut, falling 25 percent from $152 (£93) to $114 (£69).
[September 13, 1999, 9:08]
Intel cutting notebook chip prices
News The California chip maker is preparing several new mobile offerings, including a 433MHz Celeron chip and its first Mobile Pentium III chips, which will ship this fall. The 400MHz Pentium II chip was reduced from $530 (£323) to $358 or about 32...
[September 8, 1999, 8:58]
Chip makers drop prices
News Intel's largest Pentium III price cut reduced the 550MHz Pentium III chip 31 percent from $348 to $241. AMD Athlon and Intel Pentium III prices each fell much as 31 percent. Intel also dropped prices on its 750MHz Pentium III by 7 percent to $744...
[January 26, 2000, 6:07]
AMD slashes chip prices
News Chip companies tend to assign fixed pricing levels to their products and then move older products down the ladder as more powerful ones are introduced. AMD cut prices over the weekend on some dual-core desktop processors and Turion mobile...
[January 24, 2006, 8:50]
Intel cuts mobile chip prices
News More than half of all notebooks based on a Pentium M chip contain the full Centrino package. Centrino bundles based around the 755 chip were knocked down 30 percent, with the top price falling from $706 to $695 and the bottom price from $495 to $481.
[October 19, 2004, 9:35]
