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Intel price cuts on the horizon

Is this the beginning of a quad core price war?

Intel is planning price cuts to its lower-end mainstream quad-core processors on January 18.

Barron's Tech Trader Daily quoted Pacific Crest analyst Michael McConnell as spilling the beans. He said that the cuts are happening to spoil the launch of AMDs 45-nanometer Phenom II and "Shanghai" Opteron processors. The cuts are listed at between 14-40 per cent.

The Phenom II "Dragon" processor platform has been getting some reasonable to good reviewes and the Shanghai server chip has been flogged to HP, Sun, Dell, IBM, and Fujitsu.

It is looking like Intel is only targeting cuts on its quad core range.

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2 Comments

eat_the_flag Jan 15, 2009 10:39 AM	that's good.. i am looking at purchasing a new CPU for my LAN box.
phatbeat Jan 15, 2009 11:32 AM	Cheap mobo's, cheap cpus, now all we need is a video card war!! Pity no one has any money to buy anything anyway..Looks like I will have to sell my body for that sweet rig Ive been dreaming about.

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