Intel Plans Price Cuts and New Processors

Digitimes reports that Intel is preparing to use some additional price cuts in October to help phase out the stock of the budget-oriented Celeron D CPU's. As these processors are taken off the market, Intel will be replacing them with a single-core variant of the new Core 2 processors. Dubbed Conroe-L, these new processors will be released in the second quarter of 2007. An exciting new product for the value segment will also be the release of the Core 2 Duo E4300 dual-core processor in the first quarter of 2007. The Core 2 Duo E4200 processor which was originally aimed to launch in the fourth quarter of this year will be scrapped in favor of launching the E4300 processor with a healthy 200Mhz jump in core frequency. Although the higher-end markets have been receiving the vast majority of attention with the launch of the Core 2 Duo processors, one can clearly see that Intel is not forgetting about the budget conscious markets as well though they will have wait for their new toys.