Hell, they may as well give hem away.
What this means is that they are getting closer to clearing out the P4 inventory and moving products from the C2D line to align in the lower end of the market, likely to also begin making room for Penryn.
Imagine Baron -- a 6000+ class CPU for 224 bucks. :lol:
The 6000+ is going for 500-550 bucks on Froogle, this will need to drop to at least 250 by April 22.
Jack
odd... when AMD slashed there prices recently....and people said they were making room for the k10... they were attacked... not just here ...but in various forums
no attacks when INTEL seeming does the same thing
AMD is slashing prices to hold marketshare, this is obvious. It is not attacking to state the obvious. Personally, I believe AMD should hold their own and keep prices up and focus the extra capacity that would free up (due to lower volume) to working out a quick ramp on Barcelona.
My own take on Intel's price cuts at this point is to keep the pricing pressure on AMD.... Penryn is more or less an end of year launch so I should retract my point above as I think this through more.
If the rumors are true that Intel will launch a 45 nm quad server product in Q3, then I don't doubt that they are concerned about Barcelona ... a 45 nm 3.2-3.3 GHz Clovertown part will be hard to beat by a 2.3 GHz or even a 2.5 GHz barcelona chip (though is very rumored launch speed based on a oddly leaked launch roadmap).
http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/3796_large_Opty-list.png
I am very weary and supsicious of this dailytech roadmap though as I typically find such 'leaks' more credible if they are of the same style, color, and logo markings as you typcially see from official presentations. So take the roadmap with a grain of salt.
Jack
i find it a lil ODD that INTEL makes this announcement days after the detailed die shots of the k10 hit the web....
INTEL knows to within 5 % how fast the k10 will be and are being very premptive
to me ... it makes no sense to rush out penryn when u kicking AMD in the teeth like this...
Intel knows something