News AMD cuts prices again

I'm drooling over these prices... its a shame thats all I can do

 

As another poster already made clear whats good for the consumer for the short run may not be at all acceptable in the long run.

AMD when they borrowed the funds to build and tool the German 65 NM plant had retail prices of $1000 on their high end CPUs. This was also true when they purchased ATI for $5.4 billion US dollars. The prices now are not even one fifth of what they where and I would say the money lenders must be very near panic with these new announced prices. The very sad part of this is, it was just early April that AMD lowered prices by 50 % now we see an additional 40% looped of the top. What this indicates is no one wanted their CPU even though the highest priced Desktop was only $248. Although the tone of this article made it seem, this was a good price to purchase an AMD CPU or system but I need to ask why is this a better time what was wrong with the April almost give away? it is perfectly clear those prices must not have worked out, so again AMD is trying to find a price that they can move merchandise. Could turn out to be a very sad story for AMD CPU users and supporters due to the fact that these prices may be enough to keep the lights on at AMD but they are certainly are not nearly enough to pay for the R&D that brings invitation to the CPU world.

 

The thing about AMD is that they're a very big company, with plenty of deep-pocketed investors who will bail them out (to a point) for a long time yet.

Their current problems are all down to a good marketing job by Intel for their C2D line.

$170 for a 3GHz AMD chip is obscenely cheap, and given their speed you'd be mad not to pick one up for a system intended for someone other than a mad OC'er or upgrader. This is the end AMD want - they want to have computers built on the cheap with AMD CPU's because Intel ones are too expensive.

 

All very well but Intel will keep cutting prices, and they have far deeper pockets. AMD's current problems are down to themselves first and foremost.

 

Some of us are wrongly tying AMD's corporate survival with sales of their desktop processors; does the wildly enterprise-successful Opteron sound familiar? (Although they are not selling as strongly today.)

 

QFT.

When it comes to moving to a new socket though I guess it'll be S775 and a nice relatively cheap Q6600 after the price-cut
But if Barcelona turns out to be something good after all, one never knows

 

same thing always happens...they get a jump on intel's release of whatever...the c2d...the quad...the e4300...with price cuts...i hope for competitions sake they hit a homerun with phenom

 

This has got me to now seriously considering replacing an Athlon XP (backup/secondary computer / media center) but I can't decide between AMD: 4200EE / 5200EE / 6000 (4200=power $aving, 6000=power but 2x cost, 5200EE=compromise)