February 14, 2006

Intel to Cut Price 13-50% on Dual-Core CPUs

Digitimes has sources in Taiwan that say that Intel will cut prices on their dual-cores by up to 50% in April. 65nm production must be treating Intel mighty fine these days.

Intel will lower prices for its 65nm Pentium D 9xx-series processors by 13-50% on April 23, sources at Taiwan motherboard makers indicated, noting that the price cuts are aimed to accelerate the migration to dual-core processors. Intel is also scheduled to launch the Pentium D 960 CPU, which will be priced at US$530, on April 30, according to the sources. The new dual-core processor will feature a 3.6GHz clock speed.