AMD PRICE SLASH-DOWN

[tolstoi]

---

AMD FANS..hold your upgrade til next month..why?

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Memos from AMD insiders reveal big plans for July 24, 2006

According to memos recently obtained by DailyTech, AMD will drastically cut prices on its desktop processors after the July 23rd release of Intel’s Core 2 Duo Conroe processors. The memos that DailyTech has secured are between AMD and Japanese system manufacturers and indicate the following price cuts will become effective July 24th, 2006:

* AMD Athlon 64 price cuts will receive price cut up to 30%
* AMD Athlon 64 X2 will receive price cuts up to 50%
* AMD Sempron processors will receive price cuts up to 15%

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2800
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2800
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2800

cutthroat competition works wonder :mrgreen:

[darkwing]

wow!!!!!!!!!!! x2 at half the price? so yummy

[jordinho]

muuuuuuuuuuuuuusttttttttttttt ressssiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssssssssss ssssssttttttttttttttttttt@@!!!!!

[tolstoi]

^^teheheheheheh

here's an interesting POV from an Anandtech forumer :mrgreen:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By Griswold on 6/12/2006 4:00:48 AM , Rating: 3
Humbug. Intel is way too late to crush anyone anymore. They should have done that a few years ago. Now they have no chance to get rid of AMD again.

AMD has been through this before, Athlon XP was cheaper than anything Intel had to offer, also because it was weaker in the end, just before A64 launch.

Check out whos looking into the possibility to lay off subsidiaries (and maybe even labour) like the cell phone and network chip branch - thats Intel. And they have a good reason to do so. The next couple of quarter figures will look worse than AMDs because they drop prices to get rid of their netburst junk stockpile.

For the coming 6+ months, AMD will compete with P4 and P-D on the mass market, not with core2.

[darkwing]

you can't resist the Athlon64 X2 at nearly half the price!!!!!!! so yummmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyy

[tolstoi]

Motherboard Manufacturers on AMD/Intel Price Wars: "Bring it On"

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2852

[darkwing]

X2 at X1 price :drooollll:

[StyM]

when man mag price slash dire?

[tokidoki]

ugh! must sell something to buy it!

[darkwing]

X2 at X1 price, i must be dreaming hehehe