Hurt by competitive pressures from Intel Corp. and other factors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has cut its product prices in the channels and offered favorable terms to others, according to an analyst. ''We believe AMD is experiencing a challenging Q4'06 from both a demand and a product mix stand point,'' said analyst Doug Freedman of American Technology Research Inc., in a report. ''Intel's new products are having an impact as they ramp Core 2 supply, enabling the company to reverse some recent share losses. In the server market, Intel's quad core has increased the ante in the arms race.''
AMD is taking a number of steps to improve its position, including a plan to cut microprocessor prices by an average of 8 percent in the retail channels. ''We believe AMD has made the following decisions in order to move inventory: 1) A price cut to channel partners; we saw prices decline [about] 8 percent earlier this week, and 2) Favorable pricing to server customers that are in competitive situations,'' said Freedman. AMD has other problems as well. ''AMD has had a mismatch of product at Dell , with significant inventory being made available to channel partners. The dry channel issues are likely to resolve themselves fairly quickly,'' he said.
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AMD is taking a number of steps to improve its position, including a plan to cut microprocessor prices by an average of 8 percent in the retail channels. ''We believe AMD has made the following decisions in order to move inventory: 1) A price cut to channel partners; we saw prices decline [about] 8 percent earlier this week, and 2) Favorable pricing to server customers that are in competitive situations,'' said Freedman. AMD has other problems as well. ''AMD has had a mismatch of product at Dell , with significant inventory being made available to channel partners. The dry channel issues are likely to resolve themselves fairly quickly,'' he said.
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Don't you think that the reason Microsoft came out with the Student and Teachers Edition of Office was due to increased competition? Surely you don't think they were simply being generous offering $400 software for $150, do ya?
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Don't you think that the reason Microsoft came out with the Student and Teachers Edition of Office was due to increased competition? Surely you don't think they were simply being generous offering $400 software for $150, do ya?
The real competitions for Microsoft are their own older version of OS and Office.
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<3 competition.
I'm afraid AMD is pretty much stuck playing catch-up to Intel for the foreseeable future. AMD caught Intel with its pants down on the 64-bit issue and cost them a lot of money; you can bet Intel will never let that happen again.
No matter what AMD comes up with, Intel will have something better and faster waiting in the wings. The good news here is that from now on, you'll be able to get damned good processors from either AMD or Intel at good prices. They may not be state-of-the-art, but they'll be better and faster than most people can use.
I've always been very happy with my AMD chips..price and performance wise. Look at history, AMD gets beat on the benchmarks... they release a CPU that is faster. Only recently has Intel done this. I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy the falling prices and wait for AMD to offer a better CPU then the Core2.
Its always been the toher way round. Without AMD we will still be paying top bucks for your processors.
Its always been the toher way round. Without AMD we will still be paying top bucks for your processors.
I don't think you got my point. AMD (in the past) ALWAYS had a lower price for the same (or slightly better) CPU. I remember when you could buy a DX-4 133 (AMD) that could beat a P-75 for a lower price. The same was true for the 32 bit Athlons and previous CPUs. That's what I remember. Yes no?
The cheapest Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2.0GHz, 1MB) I could find was for $350 and after the 8% it comes to $322
On the other hand I was able to find a Core2Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz, 4MB) for only $316.99.
In this case, I'll still be getting a better processor at a cheaper price.
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