Intel has cut prices for some of its chips by a substantial amount. With reductions of up 48 percent, the company Sunday cut prices of its Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium dual-core, Celeron and Xeon chips.
Check out the table below for the full list of cuts.
| Processor | Old Price | New Price | Percentage Decrease |
| Celeron Mobile 570 | $134 | $70 | 48% |
| Core 2 Quad Q9650 | $530 | $316 | 40% |
| Xeon X3370 | $530 | $316 | 40% |
| Celeron Mobile 585 | $107 | $70 | 35% |
| Celeron Mobile 560 | $107 | $70 | 35% |
| Pentium Dual Core E5200 | $82 | $64 | 24% |
| Core 2 Quad Q9400 | $266 | $213 | 20% |
| Celeron Mobile 540 | $86 | $70 | 19% |
| Celeron Mobile 530 | $86 | $70 | 19% |
| Celeron Dual Core (Desktop) E1400 | $53 | $43 | 19% |
| Core 2 Quad Q8300 | $224 | $183 | 18% |
| Core 2 Qaud Q9550 | $316 | $266 | 16% |
| Core 2 Quad Q8200 | $193 | $163 | 16% |
| Xeon X3360 | $316 | $266 | 16% |
| Xeon X3350 | $316 | $266 | 16% |
| Xeon X3330 | $266 | $244 | 16% |
| Core 2 Duo E7300 | $133 | $113 | 15% |
| Pentium Dual Core E5300 | $86 | $74 | 14% |
| Pentium Dual Core E2220 | $74 | $64 | 14% |
| Core 2 Duo Mobile P8600 | $241 | $209 | 13% |
It’ll be interesting to see how AMD will react to this news. With cuts to the Q9400, and Q8300, it doesn’t look like the company will have much choice to drop its prices and try to match the competition.
*All prices per unit are per block of 1,000.
Do you mean that the company cut prices on Sunday?
Check out newegg, the prices are already reflected with a small markup (well, I only checked the Q9650) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115130
Other places will probably keep the high price trying to get rid of inventory they had to buy at higher price until they either restock or take a loss so they can sell.
I am in the same boat. I plan to replace my E6400 with Q9550/9650 and game on for another two or three year.
Newegg lowered Phenom II prices by $40 this morning. It is still overpriced as Q6600 is still cheaper and faster.
Intel always cuts prices in January as part of their tick/tock strategy. It helps gets rid of the old processors. The prices were announced a week ago
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?s=703d8fba7a2c39e914d12cab95fe6c04&t=214354
And were supposed to take in effect for vendors on the 1/18 (though vendors may not pass the prices on too customers until they clear old inventory.)
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Well AMD drop their prices of their new quads in response to stay competitive. This is great for the consumer but I worry for AMD profitability in this economy. I have a q6600 and want to get an i7 when they go to 32nm, but its good to have competition and my first computer was an AMD barcelona.
Well, given the state of this economy and the tendency for the average consumer to go for the cheaper good rather than the more expensive one, I think AMD will be fine this year as opposed to Intel whose products are more expensive.
I have to say I disagree and would argue the opposite. If Intel was truly in control of the market, then they would not need to reduce the price of their processors in order to stay competitive. Regarding the review TH gave for the AMD Phenom 2 I'd have to say AMD is giving Intel a run for their money.
As for AMD has "no way of making money," you wouldn't know for sure until you look how much it costs the company to manufacture each processor. Their cost structure could be a lot cheaper than Intel's for all we know.
I meant to say barton, not barcelona, as in the AMD athlon xp 2800+ barton core; not the amd server chip that was similar to phenom.
or it could just be pure competition. oh well, dont care, as long as i can go buy my new phenomII processor
if intel did that then it will be another evidence that intel is doing unfair competition against amd.