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CPU: Intel likely to invoke price reductions in 2020
The recent Core X series already has seen a pretty dramatic price drop in the HEDT segment, a reaction to AMD, as consumers are fleeing towards AMD for that better price perf ratio. It's now reported that Intel will further reduce prices in 2020 to remain competitive with AMD.
The news was posted by Digitimes who learned from this new information from various points of sale in Asia. According to them, a plan in motion would have several phases, whereby Intel's partners who integrate the CPUs into their own systems as well as OEMs will be given priority and will first benefit from the discount.
So in that first phase, the system integrators can apply that discount, that also means for the desktop consumer market there likely will not be big changes (if any) soon. We'll see how it pans out. The recent Core X series nearly halved in price when launched compared to previous-gen products, perhaps the mainstream segment will follow at one point.
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#5752998 Posted on: 01/22/2020 12:11 AM
I thought about changing to Amd 3900x from my i7 7700k but for just 5-10 extra fps in the games i play its not worth the money i`d lose selling my current cpu, Asus Prime z270a mobo and 32gig Corsair V pro rgb ddr4 3200, also i dont think the extra bandwidth for my Corsair MP600 2tb would make a massive impact on my life
I thought about changing to Amd 3900x from my i7 7700k but for just 5-10 extra fps in the games i play its not worth the money i`d lose selling my current cpu, Asus Prime z270a mobo and 32gig Corsair V pro rgb ddr4 3200, also i dont think the extra bandwidth for my Corsair MP600 2tb would make a massive impact on my life
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#5753014 Posted on: 01/22/2020 12:53 AM
But if that was true... why reduce prices? It doesn't make sense, they can't keep up with the demand and yet reduce prices? Something is wrong here.
You reduce prices when demand is lower than supply, that's a fact, anything different would be a financial suicide that no shareholder would approve.
The scenario has changed, and Intel is adjusting prices accordingly to keep sales high.
Lol, they can barely keep up with stock/production what are you talking about
But if that was true... why reduce prices? It doesn't make sense, they can't keep up with the demand and yet reduce prices? Something is wrong here.
You reduce prices when demand is lower than supply, that's a fact, anything different would be a financial suicide that no shareholder would approve.
The scenario has changed, and Intel is adjusting prices accordingly to keep sales high.
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#5753017 Posted on: 01/22/2020 01:02 AM
...which is precisely until the moment Zen 2 products officially launched and entered the market at retail
+ Intel is not just CPUs. A lot of that cash flow is from their many, many subdivisions... network, modems, tons of Flash memory and Optane, licensing, etc. etc.
Their CPU division sales however is dropping like meteorites every month that passes... both in consumer and enterprise, with very few large installations (supercomputing) continuing to buy Intel, the large majority of announced new supercomputers are based on Rome (Zen 2)
Many datacenters are still buying plenty of Xeons, due to inertia of their management, but that won't last long if Intel keeps getting beaten in performance and price so badly.
And until right now, their Laptop/mobile products division had basically little to no competition. That is about to change in a BIG way with new Zen2 laptop CPUs/APUs coming, 8 cores on mobile, for half the price of Intel ones... (and better power efficiency, better performance too)
Let's see the numbers for this year, then we can talk about it.
(and this was only till end of third quarter 2019)
...which is precisely until the moment Zen 2 products officially launched and entered the market at retail
+ Intel is not just CPUs. A lot of that cash flow is from their many, many subdivisions... network, modems, tons of Flash memory and Optane, licensing, etc. etc.
Their CPU division sales however is dropping like meteorites every month that passes... both in consumer and enterprise, with very few large installations (supercomputing) continuing to buy Intel, the large majority of announced new supercomputers are based on Rome (Zen 2)
Many datacenters are still buying plenty of Xeons, due to inertia of their management, but that won't last long if Intel keeps getting beaten in performance and price so badly.
And until right now, their Laptop/mobile products division had basically little to no competition. That is about to change in a BIG way with new Zen2 laptop CPUs/APUs coming, 8 cores on mobile, for half the price of Intel ones... (and better power efficiency, better performance too)
Let's see the numbers for this year, then we can talk about it.
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#5753020 Posted on: 01/22/2020 01:10 AM
And until right now, their Laptop/mobile products division had basically little to no competition. That is about to change in a BIG way with new Zen2 laptop CPUs/APUs coming, 8 cores on mobile, for half the price of Intel ones... (and better power efficiency, better performance too)
I really want a Ryzen Thinkpad. Saving money as we speak.
And until right now, their Laptop/mobile products division had basically little to no competition. That is about to change in a BIG way with new Zen2 laptop CPUs/APUs coming, 8 cores on mobile, for half the price of Intel ones... (and better power efficiency, better performance too)
I really want a Ryzen Thinkpad. Saving money as we speak.
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Finally Intel has realised that they need to cut their prices to remain competitive!!! But they are going to need more than that down the road...
Nothing wrong or illegal with this, it´s a common business practise in all industries. Unless thay demand that their partners stop byuing AMD products like they did in the past.
Oh...they don't need to be so direct as demand, merely rig + stifle competition. Certainly, they'd like to see how far into the grey zone they can take this. Lawyers on both sides will be busy.