Intel Launches Cheap Quad-Core Chip

Intel silently slashed the price of its Core 2 Quad processors and at the same time released the most expensive Celeron processor.

Talk about marketing irony, the Q8200 which runs for 2.33 GHz quad-core chip is no tagged at $224. This chip has 4 Mbytes of level 2 cache. Before you jump for joy, this chip is actually one of the least high-tech in all of the chips in the Core 2 Quad family.

Cache size is important since it increases performance efficiency. Cache is the memory that your computer uses to save frequently-accessed instructions. The other members of the Core 2 Quad chip family boasts either 6, 8, or12 Mbytes of level-2 cache. But as of this writing, no chip company or product evaluator was able to establish the chip’s performance using standard benchmarks more clearly.

At the same time, the chip company unleashed the new Intel Celeron 450. It is currently the most advanced Celeron processor powered by a 2.2 GHz dual core chip. Nicknamed as “Celeron D,” the new chip is tagged at $53 in 1,000-unit lots.

Source: PC Mag