I'm hearing that they will not further diminish the cache. Remember that the Desktop PIII Tulatin alread has half of it's original 512k cache disabled, because it's the same core as the server and mobile versions. So it would not go against Intel's marketing whims to equipe the Celeron with 256k cache since ALL of the remaining products will have at least twice as much (512k for the P4 and 512k for the PIII-M) Intel's idea is to have the Celeron halve HALF the cache of it's CURRENT products, which, at the time the Tualatin Celeron hits the market, will make it 256k. We can only hope the rumors are correct, with a base speed of 1.2GHz, the Tually Celly will hit the optimum 1.6GHz when overclocked to 133FSB (optimum because that's about how far the Tually will go).
Back to you Tom...