{"id":733,"date":"2007-03-12T18:31:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T17:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/12\/intel-upcoming-giant-price-cut\/"},"modified":"2007-03-12T18:40:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T17:40:21","slug":"intel-upcoming-giant-price-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/12\/intel-upcoming-giant-price-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel: (Upcoming) giant price cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, in an unusual announcement, Intel told observers that they prepare to cut the prices of their Quad-core CPU line. Usually, Santa Clara tells about the near future price cuts, but here they extended it to Q3 forecasts: The 2.4GHz Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPUs will go down 70% from $851 to $266 in the third Quarter of 2007. This comes with a number of more usual price cuts for all the Quad-core line.<\/p>\n<p>This all points to bad news for AMD. When they will be ready to present their Barcelona offering (first CPUs able to counter Intel on their Quad-core current monopoly), Intel is going to fight hard and fast on the price. It will be a tough market with Intel out to kill AMD in front of their customers. Q3 will probably see on of the fiercest price fights of CPU history.<\/p>\n<p>All this is probably part of a larger Intel marketing plan. Someting going like: Don&#8217;t bother buying waiting for AMD, buy our Quad-cores now; Anyway, Intel will trounce AMD in a few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, in an unusual announcement, Intel told observers that they prepare to cut the prices of their Quad-core CPU line. Usually, Santa Clara tells about the near future price cuts, but here they extended it to Q3 forecasts: The 2.4GHz Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPUs will go down 70% from $851 to $266 in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpu-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}