The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company also has developed a new chipset that has a faster bus, the pipe through which data passes between the microprocessor and other parts of the chipset. The faster bus runs at 100 MHz, compared with 66 MHz currently, Intel said.
Prices are as flat as they have been for a little while.
We expect price drops to occur in the next few weeks. With AMD bringing out new 266MHz FSB CPUs and Intel bringing out their 100MHz FSB Celeron during this month, prices will as always, fall in the not too distant future. Check out SE's Weekly CPU Prices . Maybe he knew something that you didn't. Our prayers have been answered at last, and after four years of Celeron processors running on a 66MHz bus, Intel is rolling out the Celeron 800 without a single architectural change.