Intel is currently enjoying great success in the marketplace with its line of Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad and Celeron processors. AMD at the same time is seeing huge drops in its profitability and is making workforce cuts to help profits.
Just last week AMD posted a Q1 2008 loss of $385 million and announced plans to restructure its business. Yesterday, Intel announced price cuts on some of its quad-core processors of up to 50%. The new pricing by Intel will not help AMD in the marketplace with price becoming less of a factor.
News.com reports that Intel slashed the price of its Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66GHz processor from $530 to $266 and the similar quad-core Xeon received the same exact price cut. Intel also cut prices of some of its older technology processors as well. The Celeron 430 dropped from $44 to $34 while the dual-core Celeron E1200 dropped from $53 to $43.
Pentium Dual Core processors also saw prices cut with the E2200 going for $74 after cuts and the E2180 going for $64. Along with the price cuts Intel also introduced a pair of new Celeron processors. The dual-core Celeron E1400 runs at 2GHz and will retail for $53 and a Celeron 570 running at 2.66GHz will sell for $134.
A pair of new Core 2 Duo processors was also introduced with the 2.83 GHz E8300 retailing for $163 and the E7200 running at 2.53GHz costing $133.
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had they dropped price in the q9450 just after i bought it
i would have nuked them
i swear i would have done it
When i saw you replied to this post, i knew somehow it would be connect to your recent pc hehehe....well everyone knew prices are gona drop to make room for new processors... were u sleeping that time eh? :P
not for a recently launched processor that u pay an arm and a leg for
the q9450 first of all took me two weeks to trace..eventually i found it through mwave and that too oem..no box no fan...which pissed me off more but they were the only ones who had it
and i had to buy the freezer thingie for it
after the hassle i went through had intel really dropped prices then yes i would be enraged.
and yes my pc pwn..all
of
u
and here's the funny part..its already going to be obsolete..at the end of this year intel is launching their new 8 core procs and new architecture..lga 1k series..i forgot the exact model numbers...but everyone who bought new pc's including me is going to be screwed
by the way .. have u guys heard about teh AMD V8 ?
AMD V8 is 8cores processor which they are launching pretty soon.
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yes they are coming soon and intel is launching is counter cores with Nehalem which is going to be socket LGA 1366...a whole new architecture
the other LGA will be 1066 if i'm not wrong..(check required)...but both of these are replacement for lga 775 and a counter for amd octacores
yes they are coming soon and intel is launching is counter cores with Nehalem which is going to be socket LGA 1366...a whole new architecture
the other LGA will be 1066 if i'm not wrong..(check required)...but both of these are replacement for lga 775 and a counter for amd octacores
Nope you are right about it, AMD is thinking to launch soone somewhere in mid of this year, where as intel is looking to launch by the end of this year and they are not just gona ba 8 cores, they will be backed by 12 cores as well.
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hehehe....well everyone knew prices are gona drop to make room for new processors... were u sleeping that time eh? :P
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