Upcoming 'Penryn'-based 45nm high-end quad-core CPUs may well attract an even higher price premium than before, it has emerged. Intel has apparently informed customers that next year's Core 2 Extreme processors will cost up to 50 per cent more than today's models. According to newly released Penryn pricing data posted by a number of websites, November's Core 2 Extreme QX9650 will cost $999 when sold in batches of 1000 chips. That's the price point Intel has maintained for the Extreme line of gaming processors since the family was introduced back in the Pentium D days.
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ingore AMD's "low-price " in China?
or China isnt included?
Hopefully AMD will bring out the big guns and bring on some competition. I'd really like to get the C2D/C2Q for cheaper.
Try this "old" tech on the cheap: Q6600 Quad Core Processor $277.90
Heh... no. That's not how this works.
To begin a new product cycle, they first they unleash the "new tech" Hype Machine and talk up the forthcoming new chips as if it was something akin to a new way to make sliced break (only with more and better slicing, and less non-slicing.... mmmmmmmm.... slicyness.)
Then they introduce the new chips at a sky-high price that nobody but people with more money than they know what to do with can afford. These are the "Extreme" chips. This generates demand for some affordable chips as we all salivate over benchmarks for chips we can't really afford but would like to dream we could.
Then they re-introduce the same chips but with a new name and a slightly different feature set, and chop down the price substantially. This is a "mainstream"chip, and it benefits from the free publicity the "extreme" version generated for it.
Then, they introduce a refresh of the Mainstream chips, tweaking them a bit and offering some new features. At the same time, you chop down all the preceding Mainstream prices some more.
Finaly, they subject this product cycle to the "old tech" Mype Machine and bring on the Celerons while cranking up the "new tech" Hype Machine for the next round of this cycle.
Product cycle completed. Begin new product cycle.
Any questions?
Last edited by jmmycrackcorn on 16 Oct 2007 - 14:38
Inflation anyone? The dollar has been getting weaker and weaker too...
I don't think Intel see the need for cutting the price, 'till AMD comes out with something better than Intel current chips.
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