[SEMI-NEWS] - Intel swings the axe on Pentium-4 prices.

[CougTek]

The price cut, which is steeper than usual for Intel, fixes the oddity with the Pentium 3GHz (so chipzilla restarted to distribute it again). Here's the meat of it :

The belatedly introduced 3GHz Pentium 4 sells for $417 in 1,000-unit quantities. Concurrently, Intel cut the price of its existing Pentium 4 that is matched with chipsets running at 533MHz or 400MHz, which cost from $589 to $401.

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Meanwhile, the company cut prices on some of its mobile chips. The Pentium 4-M at 2.5GHz dropped 38 percent, from $562 to $348, while the 2.4GHz version of the chip declined 31 percent, from $348 to $241. A 2GHz fell 18 percent, from $241 to $198.

AMD's processors nonetheless remain cheaper than comparable Intel's offsprings. They are simply not as cheaper as they were yesterday.

More details available at C|Net News.