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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. Good News by quantaman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Aren't Intel's prices almost twice as much as AMD's already for mostly equivalent processors? I take this to mean that Intel has decided that AMD is now a veritable threat and as such is no longer pricing like they are the only option. This will take a chunk out of AMD's sales for sure (even if they make similar price cuts) but I suspect that its main purpose will be that knowledgable comsumers will now consider Intel a viable option again.

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  3. AMD price cuts expected tomorrow by Seth+Finkelstein · · Score: 5, Informative
    ... 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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  4. I'd love to upgrade my CPU, but... by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd love to upgrade my CPU, but I've got one of these Slot A things that Intel abandoned so many years ago.

    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.

    Either way I'm out $500-1000 ... think I'll just stick with my Celeron 366, it functions well enough...

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    1. 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.
  5. what Pricewatch has to say by Kargan · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  6. 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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  7. When will those price cuts get down to us? by Tester · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The main question that I would have is.. How long will it take for the distributors to sell their stock of "expensive" chips befores cutting there prices too and as a consequence how long will it take for those price reductions to reach us? And it is much shorter for companies like Dell?
    Anyone in the industry would know?