Intel plans it usual price cut that will affect mostly the old 65nm parts. On April 20th Intel will cut Core 2 Quad Q6700 from the current $527 suggested retail price to $270. The super popular Q6600 at 2.4GHz will drop from $270 to $229. At the same time, Intel plans to introduce its Core 2 Duo E8300 45nm based CPU with 6MB cache and 2.83GHz clock and it will start selling it for $169.
The Core 2 Duo E4600 2.4GHz CPU with 2MB cache will drop from $139 to $119. Pentium Dual core E2200 with 1MB cache and 2.2GHz clock speed will drop from current $87 to $77. Dual Core E2180 clocked at 2.0GHz clock will drop from current $77 to $67.
--------------- Paul Otellini: "The initial ones are multi-chip, but so what?' You guys are misreading the market if you think people care what's in the package."
they'll keep chopping prices until they've completely destroyed AMD, then they're back up again. Get em while they're good, and make sure it'll last five or so years, cause you'll need that long to save up for the next cpu intel will sell you
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They call me crazy for yelling, alone in my room, at the computer screen. They just don't understand the game.