Intel to drive down Core 2 Quad price in Q2 07?

[sabret00the]

Intel may be set to drive down the price of its Core 2 Quad Q6600 four-core processor in Q2 2007, reducing what it charges volume buyers for the chip by up to 37.7 per cent, industry moles have claimed.
Intel has yet to announce the Q6600's launch price, but leaked information points to an entry price of $851, above the top-of-the-line Core 2 Duo but below the slightly faster quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6700. But according to sources cited by DigiTimes, the Q6600's price will fall to $530 in Q2.

Earlier this week, it emerged that Intel is preparing to launch the Q6400 in Q3 2007, possibly in the $400-500 price range. The alleged Q6600 price cut puts the faster CPU's price in line with the Q6400's claimed price tag.
Intel will presumably be looking to tackle AMD's quad-core desktop launch, due mid-2007, but it's telling that even the chip giant doesn't appear to believed quad-core chips will take be big share of the market this year.

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Proposed price cut table:-


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Any concrete ideas as to this will come into effect immediately this month onwards in India as well or does anyone have a tentative date of price cuts in India by Intel?If this price cut takes place then one may expect the prices of c2d E6300 & E6400 to come down to as low as Rs.7000 & Rs.9000 levels followed by mid range E6600 to come down to very competitive Rs.11000 - 12000 levels.
Also with the introduction of low range of C2D procs like E4300 & E4400 price of these being around Rs.4500 to Rs.5500 competition from Intel is all set to take over AMD....are we going to watch another series of price war between the two giants?I also believe that Nvidia is also planning a long awaited release of its complete 8xxx range of GeForce cards and we can expect some price cuts from Nvidia aswell.....DISCUSS.

[s18000rpm]

Intel to lower Processor Prices in 2Q 2007

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by s18000rpm

Intel to lower Processor Prices in 2Q 2007

No offence to ur post bro but that was back in December I had made this post just know if there was some updated info or not as we just entered Q2....lets try to keep this as a general discussion

[Ankur Gupta]

Yes Intel is going to cut the prices along with AMD by upto 20-30% when it releases the penryn core based processors...

[Pathik]

so is the price cut final??? if so ll it be applicable in india??? i wanna get a e6600

[sabret00the]

^^^ that's wat i wanna know when exactly is the price cut gonna be effective in the Indian market....remember last year when the prices of AMD X2 processor's suddenly fell after core2duo was launched in India?Is Nvidia likely to drop its prices after April 17th?

[Ankur Gupta]

Well one thing is for sure that if the price takes place and it surely will then it will be worldwide...
As for time limit..i think it will be around 2 months at max...even agent 001 hinted about the price cut in the last issue...

[s18000rpm]

E6420 ... here i come


btw, can anyone tell whether computer peripherals are cheap in Germany or not.

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by s18000rpm

E6420 ... here i come

Core 2 Duo E6420, E6320 and E4400 Plus Another 15 Sub-$200 Dual-Core Processors

In about a month Intel is going to launch three new low-cost processors in the Core 2 Duo family and reduce the prices of the already existing dual-core CPUs. These upcoming events appeared the primary topic of our today’s discussion that will not only focus on the detailed performance testing of the newcomers but will also offer extensive comparison of 18 low-cost dual-core processors.


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[eddie]

6320 and 6420 look the most delicious from the range. BTW these xx20 processors will come with Intel VT right?

[mediator]

Hmmm....Good news for me! I hope quadcore prices to be reasonable enough by the time.

[Kniwor]

Originally Posted by s18000rpm

E6420 ... here i come


btw, can anyone tell whether computer peripherals are cheap in Germany or not.

No, things are not well priced in Europe, anywhere, dont expect much, Asia has the good prices ( forget India, I'm talking about rest of it..lol..), also North Americas

AMD will drop prices on 9th april, to as much as half of original prices of many processors.

Intel will announce price drop on 18-19th April along with launch of E6320....etc



After both the price drops are done, many AMD processors will be better in price/performance ratio to Intel in the Mid segment, at Stock, so AMD will be in scene again.

[hitman050]

Anybody knows when the price cut will be reflected in India? I am looking into the E6700 processor, my upgrade has been long time due.

[Sukhdeep Singh]

^^ Same here Abhishek

I am actually working on a PC with 64mb RAM LOL Two Ram Sticks damaged after voltage fluction

Now Waiting to build new PC

Prices are actually droping USA.

E6600 for 260$
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati....1vGkqpJZ0DtMA


RAM is selling at Low pices aswell
Kingston 2GB DDR2 Dual Channel DESKTOP RAM $89.99

Lucky Guys in USA LOL

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by Kniwor

No, things are not well priced in Europe, anywhere, dont expect much, Asia has the good prices ( forget India, I'm talking about rest of it..lol..), also North Americas

AMD will drop prices on 9th april, to as much as half of original prices of many processors.

Intel will announce price drop on 18-19th April along with launch of E6320....etc



After both the price drops are done, many AMD processors will be better in price/performance ratio to Intel in the Mid segment, at Stock, so AMD will be in scene again.

wow that's some news buddy....do u have any source?

[s18000rpm]

Originally Posted by Kniwor

No, things are not well priced in Europe, anywhere, dont expect much, Asia has the good prices ( forget India, I'm talking about rest of it..lol..), also North Americas

thanks buddy

i better get it here itself then

[ax3]

bt how much drop 4 us (in RS) ?

[sabret00the]

AMD Processor Pricing
Effective April 9, 2007 Prices below are subject to change without notice. This listing reflects pricing for direct AMD customers in 1000-unit tray quantities, except when designated as PIB quantities.
AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor Family
AMD Athlon™ 64 FX-70 series processorsPrice

For the AMD Quad FX Platform with DSDC ArchitectureAthlon 64 FX-74 (64-bit, 3.0GHz, 2MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport bus, Socket F (1207FX))$799/pair

Athlon 64 FX-72 (64-bit, 2.8GHz, 2MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport bus, Socket F (1207FX))$599/pair

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core ProcessorPrice

Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (64-bit, 3.0GHz, 2MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport™ bus, socket AM2 )$241

Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (64-bit, 2.8GHz, 2MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport™ bus, socket AM2)$188

Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (64-bit, 2.6GHz, 2MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport™ bus, socket AM2) $178

Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (65nm, 64-bit, Energy Efficient, 2.6GHz, 1MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport bus, socket AM2)$167

Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (90nm, 64-bit, 2.6GHz, 1MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport bus, socket AM2)$167Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (65nm, 64-bit, Energy Efficient, 2.5GHz, 1MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport bus, socket AM2)$136

Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (65nm, 64-bit, Energy Efficient, 2.3GHz, 1MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport bus, socket AM2)$121

Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (65nm, 64-bit, Energy Efficient, 2.1GHz, 1MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport bus, socket AM2) $104

Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (64-bit, Energy Efficient Small Form Factor, 2.0GHz, 1MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport bus, socket AM2) ***

Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (64-bit, Energy Efficient, 2.0GHz, 1MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport bus, socket AM2) $83

Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (64-bit, 2.0GHz, 1MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport bus, socket AM2) $83Athlon 64 X2 3600+ (65nm, 64-bit, Energy Efficient, 1.9GHz, 1MB total dedicated L2 cache, 2000MHz HyperTransport bus, socket AM2)$73

^^^ Check out the highlighted prices.Although these are US prices still they're unbelievable!!!

[sabret00the]

Enjoyed the Core2Duo Price cuts - bought a C2D E6600 for Rs.12000/-

[goobimama]

How on earth is the layman supposed to differentiate between these? Must be thoroughly confusing people who aren't familiar with the numbers...

[Choto Cheeta]

Where as its been almost 10days since I got once from Kolkata for just 11k (E6600)