amd official pricing
zdnet.com
This ZDnet story about AMD's price cuts is strange. It claims that AMD, in order to keep up the pressure on intc, has lowered prices today. The prices for the K6-2 400, 450, 475, 500 plus the K6-III 400 are $73, $93, $114,$167,and $173 respectively. PriceWatch has them listed as in stock for $41, $51, $80, $127 (only 2 vendors for the 500)and $98(!). Can someone explain this roughly 35-80% discrepancy? Seems a little out of touch.
The article did include this nice quote, "AMD officials would not comment on sales data, but they say Athlon is meeting projections for revenue production so far, a month after the chip's Aug. 9 launch."
I wonder how far from reality this quote is.
Also gave some mobile pricing, K6-III 380 $349, K6-2 400 $187. If the above examples are any guide (discount ~50%), then mobile asps should be pretty good (although not nearly as nice as these two ambitious prices would suggest.) Cpq sold a lot of those 380s last month.
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