As you know, on July 24 will be a landmark day for people interested in computers, not only because of the long-awaited announcement of the new generation Core from Intel, but also a significant reduction (60%) of the cost to solve the previous generation of Pentium D, as well as the company’s single-core processors. For several months in anticipation of the announcement of Core processors dialogue between the two manufacturers is similar to a tennis match, where buyers destined role of spectators, who, watching the ball, turned his head to the side of one company, then in another direction. Earlier, the “match” was in a verbal form, Intel proclaimed a 40 percent advantage over the Core Athlon 64 X2 at the time of the announcement, and AMD has denied this, claiming complete success for its architecture in the long run. Next issue of the dispute turned into a price area where Intel has made its pitch. The eyes of the spectators rushed toward AMD, but if she can accept it? Or will it follow the counterattack? And Intel may be able to “ace” and AMD will be defeated, losing significant market share?
seems, AMD is not going to give up. Recently, with the official representatives of those companies did not leave a smile, and during the Computex 2006 the company further plans were discussed intensively with a positive attitude, and the future was “serene.” It is now safe to say that AMD will take the conditions of a price war with Intel in the near future drastically reduce the prices of single-core Athlon 64 processors. Dual-core Athlon 64 X2 and Sempron budget also will lose in value, but it will happen in an hour “X”, that is July 24.
reported that the scale of the write-down will go match for Intel: Athlon 64 will lose in the price of 20-30 percent, the cost of the Athlon 64 X2 will be lower by 25-50 percent and 10-15 percent of the Sempron get off markdowns. Most likely, the new pricing policy will be characteristic of the platform 939, and for innovations in the face of AM2. Clarifies that members of the new architecture K8L will not appear until 2007, so AMD will defend the honor of a generation K8. Now the bet is made on the price and attractiveness.
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– The AMD today and tomorrow;
– Report on the Prague conference AMD;
– Intel today and tomorrow;
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