AMD continues to bite at Intel's ankles.
With the success of its APUs and its many, many code names, AMD is scratching Intel's market share. In response, it decided to release a bunch of new CPUs and lower its pricing on older models.
The new Sandy Bridge CPUs are mostly for notebooks. There are the quad-core i7-2960XM, Core i7 2860QM and 2760QM, as well as the dual-core Core i7 2640M and Celeron B840M. Digitimes says they're buyable in thousand unit tray quantities for $1,096, $568, $378, $346 and $86.
Then there are three desktop CPUs, the Core i5-2320, the Pentium G630T and Celeron G540. They're available between $37 and $177.
Intel lowered CPUs already on the market in a bid to entice manufacturers into bulk buys. Among them are the Core i7-2600S, Core i5-2500S and the Core i5-2500T.
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I feel guilty every time I see a Intel badge, keeps reminding me about the dodgy pay-offs Intel paid to people just to keep AMD from knocking on the door. Who wants a processor from a power hungry company that doesn't want play fair? Not me. Intel knows that sooner or later AMD will become a threat to their cozy number one spot. Either way, I will never ever buy Intel ever again.
yet, to pay over $1,000.00 plus main for $500 plus Top price, same as low price stuff, well most except main & cpu can be reused. Wear laxtex surgical glove & work on wood. Once got machine loaded w/O/S & drivers in & understand mechanism, ya, waste money, except $250 Pre built System do just as well.
drashek md
I have no problem buying and recommending Intel over AMD. My friends all love their Intel MacBook Airs and recommend them to their friends, and so on!