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Intel Cuts Chip Prices by up to 53 Percent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fewer-drachmas dept.

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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  1. Very Aggressive by JM · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A university I know is building a 1000-node Beowulf (yeah, I said the B word) and called both Intel and AMD.

    Intel dispatched a suit and an engineer right away, and was very aggressive on price.

    They're still waiting for the AMD guy to show up.

    I think Intel is trying to push every resource it can to dominate the market, and they had very good results so far.

    AMD: Wake Up! ;-)

  2. Re:I'd love to upgrade my CPU, but... by Jimmy_B · · Score: 5, Interesting
    So really, to upgrade my CPU, I need to get a new motherboard. To get a new motherboard, I probably need to get a new case & power supply, maybe some new RAM... and hell, at that point I might as well get a new computer and plug in some of my old peripherals.
    You shouldn't need to replace your case and power supply, unless you have an old AT case (ATX is now standard). As for complaining about buying a new motherboard and RAM...well, it'd be stupid to put a fast, new CPU in a machine with 66MHz RAM, so really, you just keep the motherboard, CPU, and RAM together. You don't have to upgrade your video card, hard disks or monitor (all similarly expensive components) if you don't want to.
    Either way I'm out $500-1000 ... think I'll just stick with my Celeron 366, it functions well enough...
    If it does function for what you do with it, fine, keep it. But the high end is lead by early-adopters who buy hardware so they can run games, and an old PC won't cut it for those. You're not in the market this is targeted at.
  3. P4 vs. PIII prices by sacremon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The odd thing from the price cuts is that a 2.2 MHz P4 Xeon Prestonia, w/ 512KB L2 cache, now costs $32 less than a 1.4GHz PIII Tualatin w/ 512KB L2 cache. Both of these chips are intended (by Intel) for servers/high end workstations.

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    If you can't beat them, embrace and extend them.