Pentium 4 shipments were a small piece of Intel's (Nasdaq: INTC) overall chip sales in 2000, with Intel shipping only a few hundred thousand of the chips. But a Merrill Lynch report issued Thursday says Intel has divulged plans to increase Pentium 4 shipments to as many as 20 million chips this year.
Most analysts predicted Intel would ship about 15 million Pentium 4 chips in 2001. Mercury Research of Scottsdale, Ariz., predicted last quarter that Intel would ship about 14.4 million Pentium 4 chips in 2001.
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