Another Blast from the Past

[CMonster]

"INTEL PREPARES 0.4 MICRON 155MHz PENTIUMS FOR 1995
(October 7th 1994) Things seem to go from deep dark secret to public
domain overnight these days. This week's Infoworld and US PC Week
both have stories about Intel Corp's plans for a third
generation of Pentiums for next year, planned to be the last before
the P6 takes its bow. The company is switching to a 0.4 micron from a
0.6 micron process and sees large volumes of 155MHz and 120MHz
Pentiums by the second half of next year: the 0.4 micron process
should double the yield per wafer with little increase in costs.
Intel will release a 75MHz Pentium processor later this month but a
renewed Pentium push will get under way next spring, when prices for
that processor and for the 100MHz Pentium will tumble sharply,
sources close to Intel told the papers. The 100MHz Pentium, which now
costs $940, is expected to be $575 by May. The 120MHz Pentiums are
expected to cost about $650 next autumn: they will have a 60MHz
external bus, while the P55C, the 155MHz version, may have a 60MHz
bus, 50MHz for portables. The P55 core is expected to run off a
supply of only 2.5V."

Ahh yes, those were the days...


[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 02-27-2000).]

[chipbgt]

$940!!!!!!

Wow....I hope no one here bought one of those for that price http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[KillerBug]

In the interest of helping my fellow tech junkee, I will sell a Pentium at 120mhz for a mere three hundred dollars!

[OuTpaTienT]

This story demostrates just HOW MUCH bloated profit Intel was accustom to raking in for extended periods of time.

And did ya catch ...planned to be the last before the P6 takes its bow. What?! They planned to discontinue the P6 way back then??? So how come they're still using that core? I wonder if something went terribly awry deep in the bowels of the Intel labs that caused them scrap years of design spent on their "next" processor, and they had to start again from strach. ??? I mean, Williamette (or what-ever it's called) is Intel's next generation CPU (ie. P7).

[jadinolf]

Makes me feel better since my first P166 chip was only $350.

[Roy]

I have an IBM bi-stable multivibrator (c. 1958) that I'll happily trade for a .13 micron Pentium 1000. [Or whatever they decide to call it.]

[chas3rd]

Could be worse tho could be running a 120 Mhz like me

[grandslammer]

Cool! The P100's will only be $575! Allright! Maybe I should buy up a bunch at that price and make some bucks!

Thanks for the tip...

Mike P.