
Intel lowered prices by as much as 34 percent on its Pentium M chip for notebook PCs. According to News.com, Intel also lowered the price of its Centrino bundles, which include the Pentium M processor, a group of helper chips called a chipset, and an 802.11b format wireless networking module. Prices on the Centrino bundle that include the 1.7GHz Pentium M fell the most, dropping 30 percent from $713 to $497.