Leighton Flaming June painting

Leighton Flaming June painting
Raphael La Belle Jardiniere painting
word processor, presentation programs and others and just to surf the Web. It happened when Intel and its rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:AMD) crossed the 1 gigahertz threshold, it happened at 850 MHz, at 500 and so on. Yet at every speed grade -- partly because Intel controls 90 percent of the microprocessor market and PC makers must buy the chips that Intel is offering -- consumers and corporations do end up buying the faster chips. And, eventually, software programs that take advantage of the faster chips from both Intel and AMD start to populate the market. PCs packing the Pentium 4 won't be cheap, either. Try in the neighborhood of $2,500 initially -- without a monitor -- estimated analyst Roger Kay at International Data Corp. But those prices will drop significantly by the middle of next year, analysts said, because Intel will be producing the chips in larger volumes, allowing it to lower prices. The first Pentium 4 chips will run at 1.4 gigahertz and 1.5 gigahertz, with plenty of headroom for higher speeds, Intel said.