According to multiple sources, AMD reduced the prices on its processors targeted for desktop PCs. However, as usual, the official AMD price-list available on the company web-site didn’t reflect these changes in any way (only the mobile Athlon 4 prices got different there). Nevertheless, starting from the beginning of this week, the distributors were getting Athlon XP processors at considerably lower prices.

For example, according to CNET, Athlon XP 1900+ got 14% cheaper, Athlon XP 1800+ - 16% cheaper, Athlon XP 1700+ - 17% cheaper and Athlon XP 1600+ - 19% cheaper. Also the price reduction touched upon the Duron processor family: Duron 1.3GHz got 13% cheaper, Duron 1.2GHz – 14% cheaper, Duron 1.1GHz – 17% cheaper and Duron 1GHz – 7% cheaper. However, The Inquirer claims that the prices dropped by some different values. But the most interesting thing about AMD’s new price-list is the fact that the retail prices on AMD CPUs according to Pricewatch are even lower than those listed above.

I decided to sum up all the new prices taken from different sources in a small table for your convenience:

	Price
	According to AMD	According to CNET	According to The Inquirer	Min. Retail Price
Athlon XP 2000+	$339		$267	$262
Athlon XP 1900+	$269	$231	$221	$194
Athlon XP 1800+	$223	$188	$160	$138
Athlon XP 1700+	$190	$157		$112
Athlon XP 1600+	$160	$130		$105
Duron 1.3GHz	$118	$103		$92
Duron 1.2GHz	$103	$89	$78	$67
Duron 1.1GHz	$89	$74	$68	$60
Duron 1GHz	$74	$69	$57	$44

Well, hardly any comments are necessary. The only thing I could state with certainty is that prices have dropped. How greatly? Hm, it’s hard to say still...