Three New Celerons Introduced

Intel Corporation announced today that three new microprocessors clocked at 633, 667 and 700MHz are now available. The California based company is known as one of the first manufacturers to introduce some of its fastest chip models with a price tag below $1000. Celerons are ranked second in the marketplace, next to Pentium III products.

The latest additions to the Celeron family use the 0.18 micron technology, which allows more processing power to be put on a single chip.

The new processors are priced at $192 for the 700MHz Celeron, $170 for the 667MHz and $138 for the 633MHz, if bought in volumes of 1,000 chips.

These new CPUs are designed to run with existing PC hardware. According to a spokesman from Intel, "All these products fit into today's existing infrastructure. The infrastructure is there. The motherboards are there, so this can ramp very quickly in the marketplace."