Intel lowers prices on several desktop and mobile processors

Intel's price list was updated today with new prices for a few desktop and mobile microprocessors. Official Intel prices were dropped for Core i3-550, Pentium E5700 and Pentium E6700 CPUs by 13 - 15%. The price of dual-core Celeron E3400 CPU was slashed by 21%. Two LV and ULV Core i7 mobile microprocessors, i7-640LM and i7-660UM, got cheaper by 6% and 9% respectively. You may notice that 5 out of 6 CPUs were the top processors in their own categories before they were superseded by faster models one and two months ago. With the exception of mobile Core 7-640LM, the prices of these models are now in line with slower models from the same families. For example, Pentium E6700 costs the same as Pentium E6600, and Celeron E3400 is priced $1 cheaper than Celeron E3300.

Processor specifications and price changes are presented in the table below.

Processor	Cores / Threads	Frequency	Turbo Frequency	FSB	Cache	Old price	New price	Difference
Celeron E3400	2 / 2	2.6 GHz	N/A	800 MHz	1MB L2	$53	$42	21%
Pentium E5700	2 / 2	3 GHz	N/A	800 MHz	2MB L2	$75	$64	15%
Pentium E6700	2 / 2	3.2 GHz	N/A	1066 MHz	2MB L2	$86	$75	13%
Core i3-550	2 / 4	3.2 GHz	N/A	N/A	4MB L3	$138	$117	15%
Core i7-640LM	2 / 4	2.13 GHz	2.93 GHz	N/A	4MB L3	$332	$311	6%
Core i7-660UM	2 / 4	1.33 GHz	2.4 GHz	N/A	4MB L3	$317	$289	9%