Following Intel Corporation with reducing the prices on the Celeron processors earlier today and the Pentium 4 price cut that happened on the 20th week, Advanced Micro Devices lowered the prices of its AMD Athlon XP processors on Monday.
The reduction is not really aggressive, but still a very substantial one since we now can get very fast and powerful Athlon XP processors for a not very high price. Probably AMD makes its CPUs to be more attractive for end-users who plan to acquire an Intel Pentium 4-based platform with 800MHz Quad Pumped Bus and the Hyper-Threading technology support.
AMD Athlon XP and Intel Pentium 4 Current Official Pricing |
AMD CPU Model | Old Price | Reduction | New Price | Intel CPU Model | Price |
Athlon XP 3200+ | $464 | 0% | $464 | - | - |
- | - | - | - | Pentium 4 3.06GHz (533MHz) | $401 |
Athlon XP 3000+ | $325 | 18.5% | $265 | Pentium 4 3.00GHz (800MHz) | $417 |
- | - | - | - | Pentium 4 2.80GHz (800MHz) | $278 |
Athlon XP 2800+ | $225 | 20% | $180 | Pentium 4 2.80GHz (533MHz) | $262 |
Athlon XP 2700+ | $180 | 24% | $137 | Pentium 4 2.66GHz (533MHz) | $193 |
- | - | - | - | Pentium 4 2.60GHz (800MHz) | $218 |
Athlon XP 2600+ | $151 | 32% | $103 | Pentium 4 2.53GHz (533MHz) | $193 |
Athlon XP 2500+ | $124 | 28% | $89 | Pentium 4 2.50GHz (400MHz) | $193 |
- | - | - | - | Pentium 4 2.40GHz (800MHz) | $178 |
Athlon XP 2400+ | $103 | 18.5% | $84 | Pentium 4 2.40GHz (400/533) | $163 |
AMD Athlon XP and Intel Celeron Current Official Pricing |
AMD CPU Model | Old Price | Reduction | New Price | Intel CPU Model | Price |
Athlon XP 2400+ | $103 | 18.5% | $84 | Celeron 2.40GHz | $84 |
- | - | - | - | Celeron 2.30GHz | $79 |
Athlon XP 2200+ | $81 | 8.5% | $74 | Celeron 2.20GHz | $74 |
Athlon XP 2100+ | $79 | 6% | $74 | Celeron 2.10GHz | $74 |
Athlon XP 2000+ | $66 | 0% | $66 | - | - |
Both Intel and AMD are in a very fierce competition these days. Sometimes Intel can offer higher performance, sometimes AMD provides more speed and power, however, the main battle is not about the speed, but about the price. As you see now, AMD is able to sell its Athlon XP processors cheaper compared to the Pentium 4 chips, though, its lower-end CPUs cost exactly the same price as the Celeron microprocessors.
The price war may eventually lead to lowering revenues and eroding gross-margins of both companies. I wonder how long this may last?
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Celerons are complete dogs. Even if you would overclock them to somewhere over 3 GHz, an Athlon XP 1500+ can still beat it in most apps. Basically, you can take a Celeron's MHz number, divide it by 2 and you have the 'performance' it gives compared to AMD's rating system.
And AMD? All it can do against this little scam from Intel is to price its processors that carry the same model number as Celerons' MHz rating the same, while in practice, their speed would allow it to sell them at double its price.
So the fact that AMD's low-end processors are priced equivalent to their Celeron counterparts is not some sort of 'leg-up' for Intel. It's just all AMD can do against this deceptive scheme.
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Posted by: NaYoN
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Date: 05/26/03 05:26:01 AM]
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Hello which prizes are prizes for Barton? Thanks!
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