Its now Final: Intel slashes price on Apr22: Prices of Pentium E/Celeron 400 revealed

[xlink]

Doubtful. In the US, you are not considered a monopoly until you have > 90% of the market.

guess that makes microsoft a fair and honest company without monopolistic intentions, it only has around 89% market share...

[Drunner611]

I can't believe they're announcing this 3 months in advance? Unless they're trying to hush AMD?

[w0mbat]

Hm, the launch day of K8L. Why is Intel so afraid?

[LowRun]

Price wars are PERFECTLY legal

Depends where and to what extent, for example in France Wanadoo an ISP was fined approx 80M € because when ADSL started to take up they were selling internet access for less that what it costed them which is forbiden here, taking advantage from their past monopoly situation (they were the only telecoms company back in the days), the EU comission recently confirmed and fined them approx 10M €. So here price war is limited by the fact that you can't sell for no profit.

[clayton]

Wow! Good thing I sold my computer so I can get Q6600 ready in no time. Now lets wait for a matured DX10 video card.
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Vapor genie

[[XC] hipno650]

mmmmm so many nice prices on so many good procs. if i can get a core 2 for about $100 cad then ill get like 4 for wcg

[falqon]

If intel wanted to bury AMD they could have done it many times, they only need to sacrifise a few billion $$$ profit, they can take it,

Dude, have you ever been a part of a business? No small business can afford to do that, and no publicly traded large business would be allowed. You can't just "lose billions" on purpose as a CEO or anyone else and expect to keep your job. Your idea may make sense in your head, but in the real world, not hardly.

[grimREEFER]

amd needs to release cheap dual cores that can run on its quad fx boards. 4 cheap cores would be better than the high end dual cores imo. and at least that would spur intel to possibly release cheaper quad cores.
dual cores have been around for too long, its time for them to die out!

[Hicks]

Cool, i might upgrade, if the prices drop as those quoted.

[Shpoon]

Ugh...I should sell my E6600, buy a new one, and take a small loss....mine OCs terribly.

[Charloz24]

Great info! I think I will schedule my E6600 on e-bay on april 15th

[Sumanji]

Sweet, I was planning to upgrade in May/June time.

Q6600, G81/R680 and a 4Gb kit of some PC2-6400 should go nicely with Vista Premium x64... there damn well better be a definitive "Ultra-D" mobo for the C2D platform by that time though!!

[aintz]

nice price cuts. thats after university finishes yay. hopeless id have enough moneys to get a computa by then