amd pricecuts first of april???

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Another round of discounts are likely from Advanced Micro Devices in its price war with rival Intel, a move that could further erode earnings of the semiconductor maker.

Research suggests that further price cuts by AMD (nyse: AMD - news - people ) are "imminent," according to Sumit Dhanda, an analyst at Banc of America, in a Monday research note.

Dhanda said the cuts would likely occur April 9 and will most likely cover the company's desktop products including Semprons and Athlon X2s, with cuts ranging from 26% to 42%.

AMD chief executive Hector Ruiz has been adamant on reaching a long-held goal for the company of controlling 30% of the market. To accomplish this, he has led the company into a brutal price war with rival Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ).

"The environment is very competitive, very competitive," Ruiz said earlier. "We need to break the monopoly, and for that we've got to get above 30% [market share]."

 

[tallman45]

AMD needs to look at what is selling for them and that is Socket 939, there are countless systems installed in the workplace that could take full advantage of X2 processors. To stop production of that socket is a critical mistake. Companies do not want to do full OS/App installs to get a performance boost

 

[nyker96]

what series!? awesome!

 

[firewolfsm]

But producing a higher variety of chips reduces efficiency, also, upgrades are NOT the majority of sales, it's mostly new computers, and AMD wants those to be AM2.

I want cheap 939 Dual cores as much as you, look at my sig, but it's not happening.

 

[BladeVenom]

Originally posted by: tallman45
AMD needs to look at what is selling for them and that is Socket 939...

Link? Show some sales figures of 939 out selling AM2.

If it just seemed more popular, that because 939 was competing against Netburst, and AM2 is competing against C2D. The competition is a lot tougher now.

 

[tallman45]

FX-60's were selling at $399 as fast as online retailers could get their hands on them.

That was the future of AMD, forcing customers to upgrade to an AM2 is going to get them to skip over AM2 and go straight to 775. I would never recommend a client migrate to AM2

 

[tallman45]

Originally posted by: BladeVenom

Originally posted by: tallman45
AMD needs to look at what is selling for them and that is Socket 939...

Link? Show some sales figures of 939 out selling AM2.

If it just seemed more popular, that because 939 was competing against Netburst, and AM2 is competing against C2D. The competition is a lot tougher now.

Simple, just look at the number of MB reviews for AM2 vs 939,

322 reviews of highest reviewed AM2 MB

vs

Highest reviewed 939 MB over 1100 reviews

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131568

 

[BladeVenom]

That doesn't mean 939 is selling better than AM2. There are more boards available for AM2 than 939, and 939 has been out longer. Both of which could be the reason why one particular 939 board has more review than any AM2 board.

 

[hardwareking]

with all these price cuts AMD's profits must be really hurting
Intel can afford to slash prices cause they got much larger manufacturing capabilities
Anyway good for us consumers

Go Price Wars!!!!!!

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: BladeVenom
That doesn't mean 939 is selling better than AM2. There are more boards available for AM2 than 939, and 939 has been out longer. Both of which could be the reason why one particular 939 board has more review than any AM2 board.

But the push to dual core in the upgrade market could have saved marketshare at a time when a lot of people are going to go back to intel, because they have the perception of being the market leader again. NM that plenty of business systems are P4, PD or CD still, or that without overclocking, low and mid-range AMD and intel offerings are pretty much equivalent. The perception is a big deal, jus tlike when AMD beat intel to 1ghz.

 

[imported_dfifo]

Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie
But the push to dual core in the upgrade market could have saved marketshare at a time when a lot of people are going to go back to intel

I believe this is correct. AMD had a nice niche for a while as the 939 enthusiast overclocker. When C2D came out, ALOT of people running single core chips switched over to Intel when they made the move to dual core instead of going the X2 route. Alot of this had to do with pricing points.

If AMD would have sliced prices on their 939 chips earlier they probably would have been able to retain more customers. I'm still running a 939 chip and even with current prices Intel is slightly more attractive to me, but only because ram prices are falling. If X2 prices would have been cut 6 months ago, I'd own an X2 right now for sure.

 

[tallman45]

I have one company account that is searching for FX-60's to upgrade their accounting dept. Fact is companies never upgrade to the latest and greatest and 939 was the reliable socket at that time.

A lot more FX-60's could have been sold, for AMD to stop making a processor cold in light of what Intel is doing with C2D is a business mistake of large proportions.

Fact is people do not want to buy a new MB, new memory, new OS, new apps, and more importantly spend teh time to do a full upgrade when a simple CPU sawp buys them a boatload of performance

 

[tallman45]

Originally posted by: BladeVenom
That doesn't mean 939 is selling better than AM2. There are more boards available for AM2 than 939, and 939 has been out longer. Both of which could be the reason why one particular 939 board has more review than any AM2 board.

Please check again virtually every 939 MB sold by Newegg has more reviews than all the AM2 MB's combined. There are far more socket 939's out there than AM2.

The point is AMD dumped a very viable upgrade business for themselves. Companies will remember that the next time they select a socket vendor, EOL is way to short for a socket 939

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: tallman45
AMD needs to look at what is selling for them and that is Socket 939, there are countless systems installed in the workplace that could take full advantage of X2 processors. To stop production of that socket is a critical mistake. Companies do not want to do full OS/App installs to get a performance boost

I agree 100%. It's almost as stupid as the discontinuation of AGP.