Intel Announces Price Cuts

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Intel, in a move to “kick AMD in the trash”, ran price cuts across their entire lineup of chips; some drops by as much as 40%. The list looks like this:

Desktops – Quad-Core

3.0Ghz Q9650 = $316
2.83Ghz Q9550 = $266
2.66Ghz Q9400 = $213
2.50Ghz Q8300 = $183
2.33Ghz Q8200s = $163

Desktops – Dual Core

2.80Ghz E7400 = $113
2.60Ghz E5300 = $74
2.50Ghz E5200 = $64
2.40Ghz E2220 = $64
2.00Ghz E1400 = $43

Laptop

2.40Ghz P8600 = $209

Servers

3.0Ghz Xeon X3370 = $316
2.83Ghz Xeon X3360 = $266
2.66Ghz Xeon X3350 = $266 (no idea if this was a misprint of if it’s really the same price as the X3360)
2.66Ghz Xeon X3330 = $224

Intel made these price-cut announcements days after their earnings for Q4 came in, reporting a 90% drop in net income. That’s harsh, and I can’t imagine the time AMD has on it’s hands now.

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2 Comments For This Post

Jigsaw hc Says:
January 20th, 2009 at 11:44 pm

Nice. Pretty soon I’ll have to start looking at building a new system.

Riyad Kalla Says:
January 21st, 2009 at 8:37 am

No doubt, the only thing holding me back from even being remotely interested in a new system is 2-fold:

* I built a dual-core 3.0ghz system 6 months ago, the performance margin was a joke as *all* the frustratingly slow things that used to happen on my old laptop, still happen on the desktop and are still just as slow. NOTE: They are all heavy read/write operations.

* SSDs aren’t affordibly priced yet and even if you are willing to lay down the $4-600 for a 128gb, there is all this talk about SLCs and MLCs and shitty controller logic and write limitations and data loss and how new filesystems and controllers are all coming out this year — sounds a lot like the SSD arena is going to spend this year maturing it’s processes… I’d hate to be a tester for that.

Jigsaw hc Says:
January 20th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Nice. Pretty soon I’ll have to start looking at building a new system.
Riyad Kalla Says:
January 21st, 2009 at 8:37 am
No doubt, the only thing holding me back from even being remotely interested in a new system is 2-fold:

* I built a dual-core 3.0ghz system 6 months ago, the performance margin was a joke as *all* the frustratingly slow things that used to happen on my old laptop, still happen on the desktop and are still just as slow. NOTE: They are all heavy read/write operations.

* SSDs aren’t affordibly priced yet and even if you are willing to lay down the $4-600 for a 128gb, there is all this talk about SLCs and MLCs and shitty controller logic and write limitations and data loss and how new filesystems and controllers are all coming out this year — sounds a lot like the SSD arena is going to spend this year maturing it’s processes… I’d hate to be a tester for that.

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