Bill Cohane wrote:

> At 09:57 19-02-98 -0600, Donald wrote:
> >I was reading Infoworld I think, and they said that Intel is
> >suppose to release their newest chips April 15, and drop prices on their
> >current ones.  So if you are looking at a PII, yes, they should be
> >dropping in the next three months.
>
> >From Dr. Tom at <http://www.tomshardware.com/news.html>:
>
> Prices Intel is planning for their CPUs in the next 5 months:
>
>      MHZ 2/98 3/98 4/98 5/98 6/98 7/98
> PII  333 $722 $570 $480 $480 $400 $400
> PII  300 $530 $530 $370 $370 $300 $200
> PII  266 $375 $375 $195 $195 $195 $155
> PII  233 $268 $268 $195 $195 $195  ?
> Cov* 266  n/a  n/a $155 $155 $155  ?   (*Covington = PII with no L2)
> PII* 400  n/a  n/a $810 $810 $710 $580 (*100 MHZ bus instead of 66MHZ)
> PII* 350  n/a  n/a $610 $610 $510 $415 (*100 MHZ bus)
>
> Regards,
> Bill

This is great news. That means that the AMD chips will be even lower than
what they already are. One more reason for considering going with the K6 and
keep your socket 7 board.

Jose