Barry and Intel Investors - Intel is CRUNCHING AMD's K6 ASPs - and FASTER Deshutes are getting closer.
AMD's top of the line 233 MHz will be cut to only $139 next month. I guess the AMDites wil claim excellent yields!
The Intel 100 MHz system bus/440BX and DESCHUTES pricing for 350 and 400 and 450 MHZ devices is also "provided".
Paul
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techweb.com
AMD Mulls Steep January Price Cuts
(12/17/97; 10:30 a.m. EST)
By Mark Harrington, Computer Retail Week
Advanced Micro Devices may deliver planned price cuts on its K6
microprocessors as early as the first week in January, according
to a market source.
The cuts, which the source characterized as steep, were originally
slated for Feb. 1.
The source said AMD will reduce its K6 200MHz to $86 from the
current $160. The K6 233MHz will be trimmed to $139 from $225.
Pricing on the new 266MHz K6 will start at $314, the source said.
New pricing was unavailable for the K6 166MHz, which now sells
for $84. All prices are in 1,000-unit quantities.
An AMD spokesman said the company has not announced any
upcoming price cuts, and he declined to comment on pricing
specifics or an earlier cut date. But he said the company has
always maintained a 25 percent price delta between the K6 and
equivalent Intel microprocessors.
If true, the price cuts would be a strong response to an Intel road
map that shifts dramatically beginning in January, bringing the
Pentium II down to mainstream pricing.
Intel next month also is expected to make a non-traditional price
cut, slicing the Pentium II 233MHz to $263 from a current $395 (in
10,000-unit quantities), sources said. The move would leave the
Pentium MMX 233 priced at just $75 below a Pentium II 233MHz.
One month later, on Feb. 1, Intel, in Santa Clara, Calif., will cut the
price of its Pentium II 266MHz to $370 from $520 and reduce the
Pentium II 300 MHz to $520 from $721, sources said.
Additionally, Intel on Feb. 1 will announce pricing on a new
processor, sources said. The Pentium II 333MHz processor will
carry a $705 introductory price, the Pentium II 350MHz will carry
an $840 price, and the Pentium II 400MHz will carry a $980 price
(all in 10,000-unit quantities). The Pentium II 333MHz will ship Feb.
1, and the 350MHz and 400MHz will ship in April, according to the
sources. Both units will be built around a new motherboard design
that incorporates a 100-MHz system bus, increasing overall
system performance.
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