Intel planning server-chip price cuts: 30-50%

There might be a possibility that intel already knows how barci will perform... Thus the cuts. :?

good stuf, lower price when I upgrade my PC....

Intel is really the company that is going down!! they are trying to take AMD with them DAMN BASTARDS!

I like lower prices... but after reading that, this comment does bother me:



Well... a company has to do what it has ta, I guess.

Yes, eventually all the chip makers will shut down and all my years of abacus training will finally come in handy.

It's definitely INTERVENTION time. They have lost their minds.

You saying AMD is mad?

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20030526042244...

Consumers love it when companies lose their minds 8)

Actually this makes a lot of sense.

I dont think Intel really has a choice other than to cut prices on their server processors as the FB-Dimm memory is still too expensive. Usually $30-$40 more for equivalent DDR2 memory for the Opteron. The current Opteron platform still scales nicely compared to Xeons and has a better cost ratio.

In all likely hood Intel will probably have to make additional cuts when Barcelona comes out to stay competitive. Basically doing the same as AMD is currently doing in the desktop market.

In any means, servers are a completely different animal than desktops. Most IT people buy servers when they need them, not on pricing fluctuations. And usually the lowest overall cost that meets your platform requirements wins.

So you're saying AMD was mad back in May of 2003?

So you're saying AMD was mad back in May of 2003?

Well Baron certainly is  

Intel propably has already reduced Clovertown production so that they dont stockpile after their 45nm parts are launched.
They also might be re-thinking their pricing in order to introduce more speed bins.

Theres like a bazillion reasons  

You saying AMD is mad?

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20030526042244...

Consumers love it when companies lose their minds 8)

I like the last line....

It's definitely INTERVENTION time. They have lost their minds.

Yes your visits to the shrink are not paying off

They are for the shrink  

They are for the shrink  

 

apple better make the same cut or dell and other will have better hardware at the same price.

I think intel isn't going to have the upgrade path that AMD rants and raves about itself...I mean we should be able to use AM3 chips in plain vanilla AM2 boards...of course without all the benefits...

k10 will eat way less power than clovertown...being able to underclock the cores individualy...

That sure is a boring marketing conundrum. I like to think of my CPU as operating cool and quiet at max loads, and I do not want to add 4 cores just to boast how efficiently they can reduce power to 3 of my CPU's appearing to draw considerably less current than a 4x4 system!?!