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01-20-09, 09:23 AM
(Reuters) - Intel, the world's largest chip maker, has cut the price of some processors by as much as 48 percent as it confronts slumping demand and new lower-cost chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc, Bloomberg reported.
The price of Celeron 570 processors, designed for laptops, dropped 48 percent to $70 whereas one of the company's quad-core desktop-computer models, which have four processors on one piece of silicon, dropped 40 percent to $316, the news agency said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE50J3SQ20090120
Looking to strengthen its position as the world’s leading microprocessor manufacturer, Intel has hacked down the price of its mobile Celeron 570 chip (2.0GHz), taking it from $134 USD to $70 USD (the aforementioned 48 percent drop).
Similarly, both the quad-core Xeon X3370 (3.0GHz) and quad-core Intel Core 2 Q9650 (3.0GHz) platforms have fallen from $530 USD to $316 USD (a solid drop of 40 percent).
Various other Intel processors have taken a pricing plunge, although most of them carry the Celeron branding. Specifically, the 540 and 530 lines have seen a 19 percent cut, while the 560 and 585 devices have fallen by 35 percent.
A trio of other Xeon processors, the X3360 (2.83GHz), the X3350 (2.66GHz) and the X3330 (2.66GHz), have seen 16 percent price drops, while the dual-core Pentium E5200 has dropped by 24 percent to $64 USD.
From AMD’s standpoint, the chipmaker rolled out a duo of impressive quad-core Phenom II processors on January 08 of 2009, which equate to the company’s most powerful products that deliver comparable performance with Intel’s chips while priced at just $235 USD and $275 USD.
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200904/2818/Intel-beats-its-chip-chest-via-sweeping-price-cuts
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The price of Celeron 570 processors, designed for laptops, dropped 48 percent to $70 whereas one of the company's quad-core desktop-computer models, which have four processors on one piece of silicon, dropped 40 percent to $316, the news agency said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE50J3SQ20090120
Looking to strengthen its position as the world’s leading microprocessor manufacturer, Intel has hacked down the price of its mobile Celeron 570 chip (2.0GHz), taking it from $134 USD to $70 USD (the aforementioned 48 percent drop).
Similarly, both the quad-core Xeon X3370 (3.0GHz) and quad-core Intel Core 2 Q9650 (3.0GHz) platforms have fallen from $530 USD to $316 USD (a solid drop of 40 percent).
Various other Intel processors have taken a pricing plunge, although most of them carry the Celeron branding. Specifically, the 540 and 530 lines have seen a 19 percent cut, while the 560 and 585 devices have fallen by 35 percent.
A trio of other Xeon processors, the X3360 (2.83GHz), the X3350 (2.66GHz) and the X3330 (2.66GHz), have seen 16 percent price drops, while the dual-core Pentium E5200 has dropped by 24 percent to $64 USD.
From AMD’s standpoint, the chipmaker rolled out a duo of impressive quad-core Phenom II processors on January 08 of 2009, which equate to the company’s most powerful products that deliver comparable performance with Intel’s chips while priced at just $235 USD and $275 USD.
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200904/2818/Intel-beats-its-chip-chest-via-sweeping-price-cuts
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