Intel is getting ready for the Back to School 2010 shopping season with its seasonal price reduction. In some cases, CPU prices were almost slashed by half - for instance,
Core i7-870 is set to receive a 48% price cut.
The chip giant from Santa Clara introduced five new processors, with the Core i7 970 being the new non-Extreme king of the hill. The Core i7-970 a sexa-core processor that offers 12 threads ticking at 3.2GHz, with top-of-the-range 130 Watt TDP [Thermal Design Power]. The processor is priced at $885 and we've seen etailers selling it for $899 - a good price indeed, given that $885 is the price per 1000 units.
We also noted price drop in the server/workstation segment, with Xeon X3470 [4-Core / 8-Thread, 2.93GHz, 95W TDP] dropping from $589 to $328.
Afore mentioned Core i7-870 went through a very nice 48% price drop, from $562 to $294. This processor has four physical cores [eight threads] ticking at 2.93GHz, eating up to 95 Watts. Intel also launched the Core i7-870S, a lower power consuming version of the i7-870 - 82W TDP sounds nice, but this product was downclocked by 266MHz to 2.66GHz in total. Thus, it is a bit hard to justify the $351 asking price.
In the key mainstream segment, Intel just launched the Core i5-760 [4Core/HT Not supported, 2.8GHz] at an attractive price of $205 to complement the current mainstream charger - Core i5-750. There were no price drops for the i5-750, which still comes at $199 - $5 difference for 133MHz lower clock [or higher, depends how you look on it].
We now wait for AMD's response.
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