Intel To Slash Prices Up To 60% 227
Chuan-kai Lin writes "According to Bloomberg, Intel will slash product prices by up to 60% in order to regain market share captured by AMD." From the article: "Intel said it will reduce prices of faster dual-core chips by about 15 percent, according to Alex Lin, a product marketing manager at Micro-Star, Taiwan's third-largest maker of motherboards, which connect electronic parts in computers ... Shares of Intel have fallen 33 percent since Otellini succeeded Craig Barrett in May last year. Advanced Micro's stock has gained 77 percent during the same period. Intel fell 31 cents to $17.08 at 12:06 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market composite trading. Advanced Micro dropped $1.55, or 5.5 percent, to $26.45 on concerns that Intel will lower prices."
Cheaper Macs? (Score:5, Interesting)
Ira
Some Other Suggestions For Intel (Score:2, Interesting)
Some other things for you Intel guys to try:
1) Start leveraging your compiler to inflate SPEC scores - special case and hardcode as many parts of SPEC as you can
2) Keep adding more cache so more synthetic benchmarks fit completely in high speed memory to inflate those SPEC scores
3) Dump truckloads and truckloads of cash on x86 hardware sites
4) Leverage Steve Jobs - there is no limit to how much he will lie about performance - you saved his ass when he got his annoying ass dumped by IBM, he's owes you guys big time
I could go on, but you get the picture.
Good luck guys!
Sounds Alright But... (Score:4, Interesting)
Seems like it already happened (Score:5, Interesting)
costly gamble? (Score:1, Interesting)
Of course, all at a cost.
But it must have shocked them to see their market share fall so much since AMD's 64 arose. Perhaps now it is AMD's turn to tremble as their Socket 940 brings little improvement and K8L is still on way beyond the horizon.
And the price of fish stays the same... (Score:2, Interesting)
OK, that's nice (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Cheaper Macs? (Score:2, Interesting)
Oh and plus I hate the Blue Man Group.
Re:Fantastic! (Score:2, Interesting)
This machine runs: ssh, sendmail, imap, dhcpd, ntpd, samba, pf, apache, X + Windowmaker, ftp-proxy and whatever I am forgetting right now.
My parents server is similar, well okay, it's full SCSI, but it's a P-III 800MHz. Same services (minus X). It also replaced a P-I 166MHz (non-MMX) with 128Meg RAM. That P-I didn't cope with exactly one thing I tried: IMAP. That was a bit too much. The P-III 800MHz? No problem at all. Oh, and this machine has way more users than the AMD64.
For home servers, one doesn't need much.... Sure, I have an AMD64, but it definately is overkill and I should have gone with something quieter.
Re:I have to wonder (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:OK, that's nice (Score:2, Interesting)
Processor lock-in more important anyway (Score:3, Interesting)
For the longest time, Intel shares have been based on the projection of 90+ percent market share - while Motorola has been knocked out now that Apple is using Intel chips, the rapid adoption of AMD by Dell and other suppliers has meant the market dominance model was in danger.
The geek in me, of course, loves AMD - I have one in my home laptop, and most of our lab's computers are dual core dual processor AMD Linux boxen with dual hard drives.
But looked at from the market perspective, this makes a lot of sense.
I predict, however, that this news will cause the non-techie investors to bail out of Intel - more cheap shares for techies like me, I guess.
Apple relationship implications (Score:2, Interesting)
Yet Apple's pricing model has always been pretty strict - normally you can count on paying the same price for a MacBook or MacBook Pro in another couple weeks or a month barring any product line updates. But this type of news may have more people asking why that needs to continue to be the case - if suddenly that Core Duo chip is x% cheaper, why can't my MacBook Pro drop in price a bit to reflect the component cost?