Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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Ohio USA
Rumor from a site that is usually right: Apparently, Intel is competing on price -- for business customers only. They just don't want the public to know because it makes AMD more relevant.
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Intel officially craters Xeon pricing
Intel is slashing prices to OEMs
by slashed we mean far more than 50%, but the MSRP didn’t change. Officially there was no change, that pipsqueak AMD has no effect on pricing, carry on folks and look away.
Intel likely could not price their wares against AMD without selling at a loss. No we were not joking, it was really that bad.
Occasionally selling at a loss is what Intel did over a decade ago when AMD had the better CPU. Except then, in addition, they illegally paid OEMs "under the table" to never use AMD (as proved in court). It worked for Intel and nearly put AMD out of business.
