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AMD really will drop Athlon 64 prices to compete with Intel Core 2 Duo
July 14, 2006 – 9:01 AM
Yes, AMD does intend to drop its prices for Athlon 64 processors, at or about the same time Intel announces its Conroe processor availability later this month. TG Daily re-confirmed the news with AMD spokesperson Damon Muzny. Now that Intel may have at least evened the stakes in the performance-per-watt battle, AMD's plan appears to be to shift the focus to performance-per- dollar.
Intel to drop high-end Napa chipset, beef up mainstream parts
July 12, 2005 – 10:39 AM
Intel plans to cancel development on the high-end 955XM chipset for its next-generation mobile platform, codenamed Napa, but beef-up the DDR2-memory support for the two remaining Napa chipsets still on its roadmap, according to sources in the motherboard industry.
Global RPTV shipments to drop 15% in 2006
December 28, 2005 – 12:30 PM
Although flat panel TVs (LCD TV and PDP TV) will experience significant growth in 2006, global demand for RPTVs (rear-projector TVs) is expected to drop due to the declining shipments of CRT RPTVs, according to DisplaySearch.
Mobo shipments to drop 5-15 percent in 2Q
April 26, 2005 – 9:35 AM
First-tier motherboard makers Asustek Computer, Elitegroup Computers (ECS) and Gigabyte Technology expect their second quarter's shipments to fall 5-15 percent on quarter, according to the companies.
DDR prices drop below cost
March 30, 2005 – 10:43 AM
Memory pricing was still trending downward last week, despite demand from Hong Kong during the Easter holiday helping to hold off the fall temporarily.

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AMD prices drop as Quad FX becomes available
December 2, 2006 – 2:39 PM
It has been a busy week for AMD, as the company unveiled the two-socket dual-core platform Quad FX and showed off its first native quad-core processor to analysts. And the PR frenzy is not over with more news being expected this coming week. The announcements are still fresh, but we already noticed some impact on AMD processor pricing.
Intel quad-core processor pricing makes unexpected drop
November 24, 2006 – 3:46 PM
With the big Thanksgiving weekend in full swing, we are taking one more snapshot of processor etail pricing before the holiday shopping season officially enters the feverish final month. The chart kept some flexibility this week with the most significant changes happening on the very high end: The average price of Intel's QX6700 CPU dropped $99 from last week.