Intel Drastically Cuts Chip Prices
July 27th, 2006 . by joe
It looks like AMD’s recent price cuts have Intel running scared. Intel’s announced that it will cut it’s prices by more then half. If this price war continues, I’ll be forced to upgrade soon.
Intel slashed prices on some desktop PC microprocessors by more than half today, raising the stakes against rival Advanced Micro Devices, which cut prices earlier this week.
Users should see the price reductions translate into substantially lower prices for powerful desktop PCs in coming months. The microprocessor is the most expensive component inside a PC, and both Intel and AMD have cut prices on some of their most powerful chips.
Intel marked down the price of its Intel Pentium D processor, the 960 that runs at 3.6 GHz, to $316, down 40 percent from $530 in early June, according to a new price list published today on its Web site.
The company also chopped prices on some of its Intel Pentium 4 processors that support hyper-threading technology. It marked down the 3.6-GHz version of the processor that has an 800-MHz front side bus to $183, down 54 percent, the 3.2-GHz model of the chip by 61 percent to $84, and the 3-GHz version by 58 percent to $74.
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