News: AMD Price drop

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Originally Posted by awdrifter

Well, if they are losing market share even with the price cuts, think about how much more market share they would lose if they don't cut prices. I wonder how much R&D and retooling it costs to do MCM, cuz if K10 is more than half a year away, if AMD come out with a stop gap quad core (with two Brisbanes) and sell it for $200-250, they should get back quite a bit of market share from the video editor and renderer segments.

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yeah a cheap-ass-brisbane-based-quad-core would be lovely :banana:

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Originally Posted by awdrifter

Well, if they are losing market share even with the price cuts, think about how much more market share they would lose if they don't cut prices. I wonder how much R&D and retooling it costs to do MCM, cuz if K10 is more than half a year away, if AMD come out with a stop gap quad core (with two Brisbanes) and sell it for $200-250, they should get back quite a bit of market share from the video editor and renderer segments.

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Theres little or no retooling required/needed. MCM is all assembly/packaging related design, similar to dye stacking or system-in-package.

But their pride of not using MCM is hurting their market share right now.

WoW, ultra low prices, my friend just bought a 3000+ for 120 bucks like 5 months ago haha.

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Originally Posted by TG01

Almost..the 4800 should be 2.4Ghz with 2MB L2

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Wrong. 2.5 Ghz, 512kb L2 cache per core.

There are no 65nm processors with 1 MB of L2 cache per core. Instead, AMD raised the multiplier by a half. 100 MHz makes up the difference of cutting the amount of L2 cache in half.

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Originally Posted by Shintai

2007 sure is a good year for consumers. Intel will cut prices april 22. And again in Q3. AMD will follow that too in Q3...its a win/win for us :D

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No, I think AMD will follow intel in the price cut.... :slap:

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Originally Posted by arisythila

No, I think AMD will follow intel in the price cut.... :slap:

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Yes ofcourse..just like they cut their price on April 9 in advance for Intels 22th....read up! :stick:

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Originally Posted by Aerosupra

man, the prices are going way low ... is it possible?
like, its nice for us, but I feel bad about AMD, whats the point doing this?
Is it really that MARKET SHARE-THING? This must be some bigger strategy, and its concerning what AMD has to do to "keep up" with Intel today, I hope the K10 will be released ASAP ...

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Maybe they need cash to manufacture K10? We, or atleast I know ;) that dropping prices makes more people buy - and in the end one makes more money :) Maybe that's the strategy? :rolleyes: