Intel slices and dices chip prices
C|Net | at | by Mike
Intel has halved the list prices of some of its Pentium 4 desktop chips in a sweeping price cut. The weekend price cuts came, as expected, after the company last week began shipping its new 2.8GHz Pentium 4 processor for desktop PCs and cut the price of its 2.53GHz Pentium 4 chip. Intel regularly cuts prices, and its dealers and distributors have been selling Pentium and Celeron chips at a discount to help get rid of excess inventories during the summer sales doldrums. But this week's round of cuts includes more than just Pentium 4s. It touches nearly all of the company's chips, ranging from the mobile Pentium 4 to Xeon chips for workstations and servers.