AMD Slashing Prices Still Not Enough?

PeterN writes to tell us that after hearing the announcement that AMD was slashing prices on their processors by 47%, TG Daily looked a bit deeper and found that it still might not be enough. From the article: "For AMD's planned price drop for its dual-core processors to enable the company to regain its aggressive price/performance competitive position against Intel as it has promised, the company would have to reduce its existing Athlon 64 X2 and Athlon FX prices by between 38% and 56% for its various models, with cuts averaging about 51%. This estimate is based on a comprehensive price/performance review of Intel's soon-to-be-released Core 2 Extreme and Core 2 Duo processors, along with its existing Pentium D dual-core line, pitted against AMD's FX-62, FX-60, and Athlon 64 X2 processors in Tom's Hardware Guide tests."

Yeah.

[Poromenos1]

For example, the 4200+ model would have to be priced below $213, but is indicated to sell for $225.

I'd buy one if it was $213, but $225 is just too damn expensive!

Re:Uhm... still no word on the AMD buying ATI?

[dnoyeb]

There is no good reason for AMD to buy ATI. So I would not expect that deal to be "as good as done."