April 21, 2008 1:00 AM PDT

Intel cuts quad-core price by 50 percent

by Brooke Crothers
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Intel posted price cuts on Sunday that included reductions of 50 percent on select quad-core processors. The chipmaker also introduced new Celeron and Core 2 Duo processor models.

Intel Core 2 Quad processor

Intel Core 2 Quad processor

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The price of the Core 2 Quad Q6700 (2.66GHz) fell 50 percent from $530 to $266, while the quad-core Xeon X3230 (2.66GHz) saw an identical cut: from $530 to $266.

Celeron price-cut highlights include the Celeron 430 (1.8GHz), reduced 23 percent from $44 to $34 and the dual-core Celeron E1200 (1.6GHz), falling 19 percent from $53 to $43.

The dual-core Xeon 3085 (3GHz) was reduced 29 percent from $266 to $188, and the Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (3GHz), from $266 to $183, or 31 percent.

Pentium dual-core chips saw price drops too: The E2200 (2.2GHz) and E2180 (2GHz) were cut 12 percent and 14 percent to $74 and $64, respectively.

The chipmaker introduced the dual-core Celeron E1400 (2GHz) at a price of $53 and Celeron 570 (2.66GHz) at $134.

New Core 2 Duo chips were also introduced. The E8300 (6MB cache, 2.83GHz) and the E7200 (3MB cache, 2.53GHz) at $163 and and $133, respectively.

Brooke Crothers has served as an editor at large at CNET News, an editor at Dow Jones' Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, and a senior editor at InfoWorld. His CNET blog covers chip technology and computer systems, and how they define the computing experience. He also contributes to The New York Times' Bits and Technology sections. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. Follow Brooke on Twitter @mbrookec.
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by xcdriver April 21, 2008 8:23 AM PDT
It's getting tougher and tougher to make any money in this business. The giant companies like AMD and Intel will continue their dogfight, competing on processor speed and price, but a lot of the profits might be coming from more niche markets where design and creativity are more important than brute speed and price. I think that some of the most interesting (and profitable) products will be coming from slightly smaller, fabless, companies that are focused on consumer products and mobile devices.

http://hightechweekly.com/semiconductor_creativity
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by Mam00th April 21, 2008 3:30 PM PDT
Wait.... WHAT?
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by Mam00th April 21, 2008 3:35 PM PDT
Someone had a very stable overclock with the E8300 at 4.25GHZ... At $163, that's a hell of a deal
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by CascadeHush April 22, 2008 9:36 PM PDT
The definitive article is missing from the headline - it should read "Intel cuts a quad-core price by 50 percent" at least that is what it means for most users. One superseded model of their desktop quad-cores has been now been discontinued.

So what, this happens all the time.

It may be a bargain for the few people who manage to snap one up. But i'd rather have a newer CPU.
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