Taiwan Cuts Chip Production prices by 10 to 15 Percent
Wafer manufacturing in Taiwan is getting substantially cheaper this year.
Digitimes reports that prices for wafers built on mature node processes have been dropped by 10 to 15 percent because of declining production costs. Of course, it is not just a selfless move; the intention is to convince customers to order more chip and build up inventory.
That, however, may not be such an easy argument, given the general uncertain business outlook and macroeconomic challenges. While the publication said that chip inventories are at "safe levels", it is unlikely that chip customers will be rushing into premature orders if they don’t know how the market will develop in the new year.
Digitimes noted that chip inventories were at "excessive levels between the end of the second quarter and the beginning of the third quarter," which was causedby a "combination of negative macroeconomic factors such as weak consumer confidence in the U.S. and the European crisis."
It would kill the processor business of AMD.
It would kill the processor business of AMD.
Sometimes I think intel can kill off amd at any given time while still keeping the same prices, honestly i don't think its amd that is keeping their prices down.
It also reduces the price for AMD as well... HURP DURP.
so why doesn't it do that, maybe "out of the kindness of the web" i mean the processor industry
but i think now the 7970 should have less price and maybe some future AMD CPUs
i mean't didn't do that "out of the kindness of the web"
you understand
but i think now the 7970 should have less price and maybe some future AMD CPUs
i'll throw some random words around...
antitrust. unfair business practice. monopoly. government.
He said intel CAN do it if they wanted (he didn't say laws stopped them)
i'm saying why
the laws you mentioned apply when there are more than one company in the market, if intel gets rid of AMD the laws will be useless against them