Intel Falls to the Pressure, Postpones Price Cuts

Intel has decided to postpone the release of Calpella and keep laptop prices where they are despite how much consumers would really love a price cut right now. The story behind it all is pretty interesting too, filled with intrigue, suspense and shakedowns for lunch money. The story can be found in its entirety below.



In a meeting at the flag pole at 3:00pm Intel, the largest CPU chip manufacturer in the country, was confronted by the heads of four major computer manufacturers (Big Heads) including Dell, HP, Toshiba and Gateway. As the crowd grew around them Intel began to look more and more uncomfortable, desperately searching the crowd for a friendly face.

For a slight moment Intel made eye contact with AMD silently pleading for help, but AMD quietly faded into the throng of people unwilling to bring it's self to the attention of the Big Heads. (AMD refused comment for this story. Rumor has it AMD has its own chip agenda and would prefer to remain neutral at this juncture.)

According to a YouTube video (which has since been removed at the request of the Big Head lawyers) the Big Heads backed Intel against the chain link fence and began their intense verbal assault regarding price cuts and Intel's newest Centrino chipset, code named Calpella.

Dell could be heard saying, "My stock is dropping. I can't afford only $16 billion in revenue again."

Intel was expected to start price cuts on older Centrino product in preparation of the new chip release some time in Q2.

The Big Heads were quite nervous about the pending price cuts because a weak economy has left them with laptop overstock already installed with the current Centrino processor. If the new processor is released, or the price of the old one slashed the Big Heads would officially be stuck with "upside-down" laptops.

After the incident in the school yard, Intel unofficially postponed the price slashing until June and presumably the release of the Calpella chip until Q4.

In a related story Intel is projected to post a first quarterly loss in more than 20 years and chairman Craig Barrett retired last month. No word if he was confronted at the flag pole.

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