CPU Wars Again!

May 30, 2000 3:00 PM

Yummy! it looks like the AMD/Intel price wars are heating back up again. You can check out this news.com article with word on all the Intel CPU price cuts. (Thanks Gregory Powell) and also, AMDZone got a translation of this ithome.com.tw article with 2 very important points:

*. AMD and VIA to introduce Thunderbird/KT133 on June 5, 2000.
*. Athlon price cut by 20% to 30% early June (next week).

Combine this news item with the word that Via is showing off a 1.4GHz "Athlon" chip and it makes you re-think if it will be a Thunderbird or not. Although they do list it on a KX133 chipset...

Steve Gibson

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