The Pentium 4-2.4GHz/800 dropping $9 is the best the Intel section of this week's guide has to offer, with only a few other processors decreasing by more than a few dollars and a couple even inching up in price. The just-released Pentium 4-3.4GHz Prescott has yet to appear in vendor inventories or this guide, but hopefully its presence will eventually contribute to lower Intel processor prices.
Each camp has recently launched a new processor, with AMD introducing the Athlon 64 FX-53 and Intel debuting the 3.4GHz Prescott Pentium 4. But with AMD's offering replacing, rather than updating, the older FX-51 and Intel's latest processor failing to offer much of a performance boost over its identically-clocked Northwood equivalent, it's going to take something more to get CPU prices moving downwards again. Unfortunately, the next traditional price-slashing time is still several weeks away. So if history is any guide, then CPU prices might not be changing too much in the very near future.
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