by Anton Shilov
02/25/2003 | 02:14 PM
Yesterday was apparently the day of price reductions at AMD’s Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, all the prices were affected and now AMD’s customers should be glad with more favourable conditions. We mentioned the reductions in desktop and sever families of processors yesterday and now it is time for us to share some information in regards mobile and desktop replacement processors from AMD with you.
| Athlon XP Processors With Low Power Consumption Current Official Pricing | |||||
| CPU Model | Old Price | New Price | Reduction (%) | ||
| Standard Mobile AMD Athlon XP Processor | |||||
| Athlon XP 1900+ | $186 | $105 | 43.5% | ||
| Athlon XP 1800+ | $157 | $98 | 37.5% | ||
| Athlon XP 1700+ | $145 | $81 | 44% | ||
| Athlon XP 1600+ | $119 | $74 | 38% | ||
| Athlon XP 1500+ | $99 | $67 | 32% | ||
| Athlon XP 1400+ | $99 | $52 | 47.5% | ||
| Desktop Replacement Mobile AMD Athlon XP Processor | |||||
| Athlon XP 2200+ | $186 | $117 | 37% | ||
| Athlon XP 2000+ | $157 | $92 | 41.5% | ||
| Athlon XP 1900+ | $89 | $84 | 5.5% | ||
| Athlon XP 1800+ | $83 | $77 | 7% | ||
| Athlon XP 1700+ | $76 | $62 | 18.5% | ||
| Athlon XP 1600+ | $69 | $57 | 17.5% | ||
| Athlon XP 1500+ | $52 | $52 | 0% | ||
It becomes a nice tradition of AMD to slash the prices on mobile chips very tangibly, as you may notice. Also the prices on higher-end desktop processors with low power consumption were reduced not less significantly, as it is clear from the table.
Now mobile processors from Advanced Micro Devices are a lot cheaper than comparable CPUs from Intel (check the prices over here), hence, have more prospects on the market.