AMD and Intel fighting low prices

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ [...] ?0221alert


This article details that intel will no longer be introducing inexpensive dual processor setups. There will not be a dual P4 as originally planned. Here is a direct quote for the article.

"Intel will also announce that it will do away with the Pentium III and Pentium 4 prefixes on its Xeon line of processors, sources said.

The company will announce that its Pentium 4 chip will remain a single-processor device for PCs and that the dual-processing needs of servers and workstations will be handled by a chip code-named Foster. Foster is a next-generation Xeon chip with dual processing capabilities and the Pentium 4's NetBurst architecture. Foster is set to arrive in the second half of this year, sources said.

"What Intel is trying to do is put some distance between multiprocessor configurations, which will be Xeon-based, and Pentium 4 chips for the desktop and low-end workstation environments," Brookwood said.


Your probably doing what i did. WTF? Basically intel wants more money. Intel figured out everyone is using inexpensive workstations to do 3d and they can't have that, so they're just eliminating all cheap dual solutions.

On the AMD side something similar is occuring. Not for their dual boards, but when sledgehammer is released there will be two main versions of their chips, a high end and low end consumer driven bracket. The cpu companies are trying to get high end system prices back up, by creating a performance and expense gap between families of cpus. Joy. I guess this means upgrade this year or pay the price later.