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Wednesday, May 29, 2002
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/05/28/020528hnintelcut.xml Intel cuts chip prices up to 53 percent Duncan Martell Intel Corp. has cut prices on some of its microprocessors by as much as 53 percent as the world's largest chipmaker's investments in manufacturing over the past two years are start to pay off. Intel regularly cuts prices throughout the year as its production costs drop and demand shifts. But the company said this round of price cuts is a direct result of the billions of dollars it has spent on upgrading chip factories with machines that make chips from larger wafers and with shrinking line widths and transistors on its chips.... Among the price cuts, Santa Clara, California-based Intel shaved the price of its second-fastest processor, the Pentium 4 running at 2.4 gigahertz, by 29 percent to $400 from $562 in quantities of 1,000. Reductions in prices on other Pentium 4 chips for desktop computers ranged from 12 percent on a 1.7 gigahertz Pentium 4 to 43 percent on its 2.26 gigahertz Pentium 4 processor....
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