insane kwam op The Register twee berichten over Intel tegen, en uit deze berichten valt op te maken dat Intel toch in de richting van een prijzenoorlog gaat. En of we daar nu zo blij mee moeten zijn...
Dit schreef hij:
"Intel begint de pijn van het tekort aan Coppermines langzaam te voelen. Het is zo erg dat ze zelfs de p2 400 weer inzetten. Verder dropt Intel voor de 2e keer in een week de prijzen.":
Chip giant Intel has made "adjustments" to its pricing for the second time in a week, but that is unlikely to ameliorate distributors and dealers, both of which are suffering chip starvation.
The PIII/500 with 512K cache and using the 100MHz front side bus drops from $243 to $216, a 12 per cent drop.The Pentium III 533/133 FSB with 512K cache drops to $220 from $332, that is a fall of around 34 per cent.
The Pentium III 550/100 FSB with 512K cache dropped to $274, from $366, while the Pentium III 600 100mhz with 512K cache (part number 277309) is now $327, and was $490. The Pentium III 600/100 FSB with 512K cache drops to $327 from $490, the Pentium III 650 100MHz part with 256K cache drops to $424 from $602. [break]In een ander artikel wordt ingegaan op het feit dat de goeie ouwe Pentium II 400 weer teruggehaald is uit het processor-bejaardentehuis.[/break] One peculiar side effect of Intel's current problems with supplying processors is the sudden availability, once more, of the Pentium II 400MHz processor.
Distributors have been told over the last few days that there is now wide availability of the processor, which actually entered the chip gulag many many months ago.
Just exactly what reputable distributors are supposed to do with these Pentium IIs is the really interesting thing. Do they suddenly start telling their system builder clients that while, no, they can't have Coppermines because there aren't any, they can instead revert to a trusted component from yesteryear?
It also begs the interesting question of just where Intel found these components which ought to be part of the chip dinosaur's fossil record.
Hier vindt je info over de nieuwe oude PII 400 en hier info over de nieuwe prijsdalingen.