Infoworld reports on the price cut:
INTEL HAS CUT the prices of its Celeron and Pentium 4 desktop processors in advance of the expected launch of a new 3.06GHz Pentium 4 processor this week, the company confirmed Tuesday.
To bring slower processors in line with the new chip, the 2.8GHz Pentium 4 will fall in price from $508 to $401, and the 2.67GHz and 2.60GHz Pentium 4 processors will decline from $401 to $305, according to Intel’s Web site. All prices are in 1,000-unit quantities.
Intel will also cut prices on its budget line of Celeron desktop processors. The 2.0GHz Celeron will fall from $103 to $83, the 1.8GHz from $83 to $69, the 1.7GHz from $69 to $54, and the 1.4GHz from $74 to $54, Intel said.