Intel Cuts Chip Prices by up to 53 Percent

babbage1815 writes: "Intel Corp. has cut prices on some of its microprocessors by as much as 53 percent as the world's largest chipmaker's investments in manufacturing over the past two years are starting to pay off." Most of the cuts are at the very high end of the line -- it'll be interesting to see what happens to the prices of the competing AMD offerings.

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AMD price cuts expected tomorrow

[Seth Finkelstein]

... it'll be interesting to see what happens to the prices of the competing AMD offerings.

From more coverage at ZDNET:

Advanced Micro Devices, Intel's rival in processors, will likely cut prices to match Intel's cut. AMD typically announces price cuts a day or so after Intel. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company is also expected to soon release "Thoroughbred," a faster version of its Athlon chip, made on the 130-nanometer manufacturing process, for desktop computers. The company is currently shipping the chip to PC makers, a spokesman confirmed, and will release the chip to the public shortly.

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what Pricewatch has to say

[Kargan]

Okay, I was curious enough to check Pricewatch (www.pricewatch.com) and found about the same story there as I've found for the last few years.

$395 Pentium 4 2.4GHz
$245 Pentium 4 2.2GHz Sock 478
$195 Pentium 4 2.0GHz Sock 478
$173 Pentium 4 1.9GHz Sock 478

$186 Athlon XP 2100
$146 Athlon XP 2000
$122 Athlon XP 1900
$95 Athlon XP 1800

You can get an AMD 1.53GHz for less than $100 now!!

These price cuts by Intel are long overdue by my reckoning, and while it is a step in the right direction, they've still got a ways to go.

Anyone wanting a CPU upgrade at this point anyway would be wise to wait a bit for the 64-bit CPU price war to begin, it's not far away at all, and then all these chips will look slow and clunky.