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January 13, 2009 2:30 PM PST

Intel price cuts coming

by Brooke Crothers

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

Barron's Tech Trader Daily first reported the news, citing Pacific Crest analyst Michael McConnell.

These cuts are happening because of the recent introduction of Advanced Micro Devices' 45-nanometer Phenom II and "Shanghai" Opteron processors.

AMD's quad-core Phenom II "Dragon" processor platform has been garnering solid reviews and its Shanghai server chip has been adopted by top-tier server suppliers including Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Dell, IBM, and Fujitsu.

Cuts are expected mainly on quad-core processors, though other processors may also receive cuts.

Brooke Crothers is a former editor at large at CNET News.com, and has been an editor for the Asian weekly version of the Wall Street Journal. He writes for the CNET Blog Network, and is not a current employee of CNET. Contact him at mbcrothers@gmail.com. Disclosure.
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by trd1282 January 13, 2009 3:39 PM PST
Nice, competition is a great thing.
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by BigGuns149 January 13, 2009 9:43 PM PST
It is a good thing, but I don't think that competition with AMD as good as it could be. The price cuts in this story seem small compared to some of the price cuts that we saw a few years back when AMD had more market share.

Hopefully, AMD can start to get back in the game so that Intel won't end up getting too complacent.
by D3vildog699 January 13, 2009 6:20 PM PST
mmm i smell a quad core for my Desktop, once i can afford another mobo to support it!
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by pithenumber January 13, 2009 8:09 PM PST
I smell an upgrade for both my 775 and AM2+ rigs
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Brooke Crothers was formerly editor-at-large at CNET News.com, an analyst at IDC (International Data Corp.) Japan, and an editor at The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly (The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones), among other endeavors, including a recent hiatus from the tech industry when he co-managed an after-school math and reading center. Nanotech covers computer chip technology and how it defines the computing experience. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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