Intel will trim the prices of its desktop Celeron chips on 22 August in a bid to fend off AMD's pitch against the value processor line with its own Sempron range (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/07/amd_sempron/).

So claims (http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20040705A7041.html) DigiTimes, which reckons prices will fall by up to 13.6 per cent. The cuts take in recently released 90nm Celeron D chips as well as older, 130nm parts, its Taiwanese industry sources say.

Paring back Celeron D will help boost sales of Intel's i915 chipset family - aka Grantsdale - the sources added. This snippet provides more support for suggestions that Intel will offer Socket-T Celerons (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/25/intel_775_pin_celeron/) in the very near future.

Intel's Celeron roadmap (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/26/intel_desktop_roadmap/) appears to include the arrival of a 2.93GHz part in August, the Celeron 340, a point Digitime's sources also make. A 3.06GHz version is expected at the start of Q4. ®

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