Holy crappers, AMD to cut prices up to 50% !!!!

[TechyJono]

WOOHOO!!!

About time AMD makes a big leap forward. Finally after god knows how many years we can see a new leader and hopefully see cheaper and faster CPU's ever than before.

Can't wait - I think I might hold a while till they make an announcement on what they're doing first before I go buy new CPU.

 

[Rigoletto]

I think the news is exaggerated. I am sure that AMD knows what it's doing. It will reinvest all the profit it can and take the speed crown and millions of OEM orders in the next few months before the P4 comes out (which will probably be delayed and overpriced.)
For the next six months it's going to be AMD that rules.

 

[Whitedog]

Rigoletto hit the nail on the head. AMD knows Intel is in Hot water trying to get the P4 out for the Christmas buyers... so they are making sure they get the most attention from the holiday buyers as they can. I think AMD is going to have a Nice Christmas this year

 

[Bignate603]

darn it, should have waited month befor getting my 800 t'bird, lol, oh well, i'm still happy with it.

 

[Czar]

Its more likely that AMD is forcing Intel to release the P4, we all know that RDRAM is the only option for a P4 right now because VIA hasnt finished their P4 chipset, we all know that the 850 has bugs in it, we also know that RDRAM is still overpriced compared to SDRAM and DDRAM.

If Intel releases the P4 now before its ready then the P4 will get a bad name because people will soon see that its not realy good. Same mistake Matrox did releaseing the G400 to soon with bad drivers and the same problem AMD had with the Athlon and the buggy mobos that were out when the Athlon first came.

 

[noxipoo]

they can lower price since 1.2 will come out and i'm sure that thing is gonna be expensive. their 1ghz+ chips are still expensive.

 

[Rent]

I'll wait for DDR memory and boards.

This just makes the Tbird more tasty...

 

[peemo]

<< Who give's a flying squirrel's ass about that! Under $500, woooweeeeee, yippy skippy!! >>



Uh, yeah, I was being sarcastic too; hence the winkie

AMD RULEZZZ, INTEL FOOLEZZZ

P.S.
I still love my PIII.

 

[DaddyG]

Mirrorlake,

If you bought your BIRD from an AMD approved reseller, AMD warranties the proc for 1 year. If you bought it gray market your SOL.

The Registry always has the scoop on AMD prizes. Man, I hope they have the cash-flow to keep sticking it to Intel, its soooo good for the consumer.

 

[RagingGuardian]

With the $ I'm saving on the Athlon I can now get more DDR memory for some more DDR lovin...

God I love AMD.

 

[arthurb1]

You jerks. I just get all happy with my new Readon coming and my 800bird on this KT7...and I finally ge Win2k working. You guys see that and try to sell me a freaking MP board and 2 more new birds...geez! And now I gotta buy DDR ram too! Oh well, my little bro's Celly 400 is due for an upgrade so I guess it to him this all goes in Jan.

 

[Ben]

<< My guess is they're trying to move the sweet part of the curve into MHz ranges that Intel hasn't been able to supply in volume. >>



Ya exactly. Why compete with Intel in the lower speed ranges, when you have the capability to move your MHz curve up to a point where there's no competition. Then you can name your price.

Luckily, AMD doesn't price gouge as bad as Intel.

 

[Mixxen]

I read somewhere that AMD is cutting cost because Tbirds under 900 and Durons under 700 will be DISCONTINUED at the end of THIS MONTH. Dam, I feel sorry for Intel.

 

[Haervii]

CRAP! Gotta get my Duron fast!

 

[HaVoC]

Sweet, I'll move to the KT133 platform plus T-bird at year end and then upgrade 6 months later to DDR on the same chip! I was going to stay with Intel but the price/Mhz with AMD after this price cut (if it is indeed legit) is just too good to pass up.

 

[RagingGuardian]

This MHz thing is moving way too fast.

 

[Finality]

I personally think its a bad move on AMDs part. Not for us.

They seem to be erroding the bottom line of there systems. While they are after market share people are going to start expecting this kind of behaviour from them.

 

[AfterBurn]

<< I really hope AMD can do this without cutting into profits too much >>



Production cost for a CPU like Athlon or P3 is about $45-$50...

 

[Davegod75]

whoooohooooo time to upgrade!!!!!!1

 

[Soccerman]

first of all, AMD isn't losing money by cost cutting, they simply don't make as much per chip.

second of all, AMD is looking at the BIG picture, not the small one. a cost cut will increase OEM attention, and therefor make more sales in that arena, which is where it matters most, becuase 100 000 CPU's for Retail is NOTHING compared to what OEMs go through.

trust me, AMD did the right thing.

 

[Cpntrips]

An Athlon 850 is already only $209 on Sharkeyextremes price list. Why do they say the price is dropping from $350 when its already only ~$200?

 

[Rudee]

Yeah, I noticed the same thing. I have no idea where they got that price from.

 

[Eli]

Huh. Some of you people are weird. The Reg is very rarely wrong on stuff like this.

Charles- Underpricing?

Sciencewhiz- Think about what you just said. Then re-read the Register's article.

peemo- Impossible? How do you figure?

bernse- As someone said, It costs roughly 50-55$ to make a CPU.

Modus- I'd tend to agree, but AMD wouldn't lower prices when they didn't have too if it was going to hurt them. That would be pulling an Intel, shooting yourself in the foot.

Rigoletto- Look at all of The Register's passed leaked price drops.. Not only are the dates right on, but so are the prices, in almost all cases..

Mixxen- That would be incredible if it were true. It could happen. ROFL.. What if AMD's slowest(not counting Duron) was a Thunderbird 800.. and it cost less than 150$.. Hahah... Intel would sh!t themselves..

RagingGuardian- How can you twist that to be a bad thing?

Finality- How do you figure? Did you say this about all of AMD's passed price cuts?

Soccerman's got it...

Guys, They always talk in 1,000 unit quantities. The Duron 600 is well below 50$ on Pricewatch, yet their price is 79$, dropping to 53$.

 

[StanFL]

Although the price cut may well happen later, it ain't gonna happen on the 9th. Intel's next price cut is due Oct 29th last I heard. I'm sure AMD will not sit by idly and will match in some shape, form or fashion.

The reason is simple. I work for a large AMD reseller. We are always notified so we can clean inventory and get new stock at the lower prices. The way AMD works it, they have to get the old cpu's back BEFORE the new prices take affect, then they issue credit to a reseller for them. Once the new prices take affect, we order thousands at the new prices and get them overnighted to us. So if the price cuts were taking effect on the 9th, we would have been overnighting thousands of cpu's back to AMD today. We didn't ship a damn thing back to them.

The Register is flat out wrong on the timing.

 

[Sephiroth_IX]

<< I don't get it. Why do they want to do this?

Are They trying to gain more market shares by underpricing their products? >>

Basically.