AMD lowers Athlon 64 prices again

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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) yesterday cut the prices of its Athlon 64 CPUs, with the aim of boosting sales of its 64-bit processors in the channel, according to sources at AMD Taiwan. AMD had previously lowered its CPU prices in mid-October. In addition, AMD slightly lowered the prices of its Sempron CPUs, as the company started to offer boxed models, while discontinuing the delivery of the bulk-packs, the sources noted.

News source: DigiTimes

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Ben Goodger has updated his Blog with some interesting stuff concerning the 1.0 release. Read the whole entry here.

This day has come a lot later than any of us originally planned, but that's the way software goes. I've learned a lot about a huge number of things in the process, have had the opportunity to talk to a lot of different people about their experiences with the software, etc. It's been a long road but we're finally here. No software is perfect, we did not fix every bug, implement every feature, but what we did do was create what we believe to be the best browser around. I want to thank you all again for the support over the past few years.

We also asked Ben what the progress was after 1.0 :

"After 1.0 we plan to resync our development work with the Mozilla trunk so that we can immediately pick up the great work that's been going on with Gecko since we've been away, continue our HIG compliance efforts for MacOS X, improve existing systems and plan for the next major release. The first interim release will be 1.1 in or around March 2005. ".

#1 SaLiVa on 09 Nov 2004 - 15:43

Thats good. Normal, but good.

#2 beardly on 09 Nov 2004 - 16:04

I like hearing this.

#3 kizzaaa on 09 Nov 2004 - 18:23

Great. I've been thinking about upgrading to an AMD64 system

#4 dragon2611 on 09 Nov 2004 - 18:44

im thinking next upgrade to either a p4 extreme or an amd 64, but thats making me swing even further towards the amd64 i have an althon xp atm and am very happy with its performance

#5 Coolme on 09 Nov 2004 - 20:08

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while discontinuing the delivery of the bulk-packs, the sources noted.

Except to big computer companies like eMachines right?

#6 Samoa on 09 Nov 2004 - 22:19

prices dropped like 10-20 dollars

(2 replies) #7 atomicski on 09 Nov 2004 - 22:35

i am waiting for the prices of the newcastle cores to drop in the 3500+

#7.1 Samoa on 09 Nov 2004 - 23:01

good Idea

#7.2 scyphe on 10 Nov 2004 - 06:02

You'll most likely get a Winchester if you wait since AMD is moving most of theur high-end desktop CPU's to 90nm tech.

(2 replies) #8 CheeseCow on 09 Nov 2004 - 23:16

I've got an AthlonXP 3000, and as expected the whole "64bit" hype faded quickly. I don't see the point in updating now, as new technologies like PCI Express need to mature first. And after testing one of those fast new AMD machines I have to say it doesn't feel all that much faster.

I am not going to pay out of my nose for 10 extra FPS in UT2k4.

#8.1 jas8522 on 10 Nov 2004 - 00:43

Makes sense when you've already got a 3000+
Althought when I went from my 2500+ unlocked barton (oc'd to 3000+) to my Athlon 64 3200+ I actually did see a difference - not really a fps thing - that's more video card related. I'm talking about general application use - it just seems that much quicker even though they have the same L2 cache size.
I guess hypertransport really does it's job well

jas8522

#8.2 scyphe on 10 Nov 2004 - 06:00

My old system was a Barton 2500+ O/C'ed to ~3200+ (2.3Ghz) and my current system is an Athlon64 3200+ O/C'ed to ~3900 (2.57Ghz), and I definitely experience a boost in most tasks I do in windows (compressing xvid's, surfing, working in soundforge, photoshop etc. etc.).

And I've been invited to betatest WinXP64 for Microsoft, which means Win64 is ramping up for a spring release. So I experienced only positive things when I upgraded.

#9 ArtOf_War on 10 Nov 2004 - 06:45

great, this is good news, especially since i need to upgrade soon

#10 wog boy on 10 Nov 2004 - 07:56

Love AMD, the next 5 years are going to be hell for intel if AMD continues to inovate the way it currently is.

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