Intel Price Cuts

[kaffra]

Earlier this week, Intel held its Spring Intel Developer Forums in Shenzhen, China and Cairo, Egypt. In addition to showing off its new Bensley server architecture, the chip maker announced the Core 2 Duo's (Conroe) ship date and a series of price cuts. More importantly, the same prices across its product lineup will be offered to all customers, not just the major PC makers such as Dell, HP, and Lenovo.

The price chopping will culminate on July 23, which will also be when the Conroe starts shipping. Here's a sample of Intel's new pricing structure. Keep in mind that prices are per processor in units of 1,000.

Pentium D 960: from US$530 to US$316

Pentium D 950: from US$316 to US$224

Pentium D 920: from US$209 to US$178

Pentium D 820: from US$209 to US$113

Pentium 4 661: from US$401 to US$183

Pentium 4 541: from US$218 to US$84

Celeron 346: from US$89 to US$69.

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Conroe starts at $183(E6300 model), but i think ill get the E6600 for more cache and at least its runs the same speed as my current p4, though of course much higher performance. :woot:

more slides for other processors

[Scirwode]

Thank you for that. It was a good read for me. Is there any more information about Merom and its expected price as I'm very much interested in that. I'm not even sure if it is compatible with current Yonah boards though I have heard that it will be compatible. Is there also any news about the Intel Interchangeability Initiative?

PSG22

[+.Aaron Subscriber¹]

Awesome news. Can you post the price list without your sites name covering it? A bit annoying and makes it harder to read.

[viciv]

hmm.. it's HKEPC...not kaffra's fault^^

[kaffra]

^sorry it aint my site :). if i come across some clean images ill post it

[NienorGT]

HAHAHAHAHA...

181 for the IC2D E6300

Actually a Athlon64 3500+ (Single Core) is 200 ...

[L3thal Veteran]

Those are some huge price cuts on the Pentium D's. Those prices for the Conroe chips are good as well. Intel will make a big statement this year with their CPU division :yes:

[Blaine]

Great!

Wouldn't it be better though to get the 2.4 $316.00 because it has double the cache?

[gwai lo]

Better? In reference to what?

[+Tantawi Subscriber²]

Welcome back Intel :D

[Steven]

Looks like my PC Upgrade is going to come sooner then I expected. :)

[Leddy]

HAHAHAHAHA...

181 for the IC2D E6300

Actually a Athlon64 3500+ (Single Core) is 200 ...

Annnnd the E6300 will probably take the A64 3500+ for a ride to the junkyard and back, in terms of performance.

[Malisk]

If the Conroe's start off at decent prices at least, I may indeed also upgrade sooner than expected. :)

The E6600 sounds pretty good while still not skyrocketing in price. :D

[Dom]

Annnnd the E6300 will probably take the A64 3500+ for a ride to the junkyard and back, in terms of performance.

You cant really compare then, indeed Conroe is better...

Still, Intel won this fight, not even the AM2 can fight against the Conroes...

Still, AM2 are just 939 with DDR2, still 90nm...

AMD RevG should be realeased soon enough with 65nm and there is where the war will begin :p

(Soon = end of the year might be totally announced :p)

[gaurav]

oh how i wish that conroe would run on my Asus P5AD2E Premium mobo. :(

[kaffra]

Thank you for that. It was a good read for me. Is there any more information about Merom and its expected price as I'm very much interested in that. I'm not even sure if it is compatible with current Yonah boards though I have heard that it will be compatible. Is there also any news about the Intel Interchangeability Initiative?

PSG22

supposedly its officially out today?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060605/tc_pcworld/125971

tomshardware has another benchmark of the core2 duo(conroe). Since the NDA is over we should be seeing more reviews soon.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/06/05/fir...onroe_vs_fx-62/

[macrosslover]

anybody have any links of people who might be estimated AMD price cuts? i'm still going to stick with AMD for the rest of the year at least until quad-core cpus come out. I never buy technology the first time it comes out. I'm hoping that Conroe stomps X2 so AMD drops the price heavily on them so i can buy one lol.

[Scirwode]

supposedly its officially out today?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060605/tc_pcworld/125971

tomshardware has another benchmark of the core2 duo(conroe). Since the NDA is over we should be seeing more reviews soon.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/06/05/fir...onroe_vs_fx-62/

Thank you for the link :yes: .

PSG22?

[a_witko]

hang on, so core duo's are going down?! does that mean macbooks will be cheaper!?