Amid all the noise created by Intel's announcement of pushing foreward the rollout of their new processors, in an attempt to reclaim the limelight, AMD struck in their trademark way.
If there is one thing AMD do well is cut prices and that is exactly what they decided to do in order to dismiss any notion that Intel chips could ever compete with their own on price.
Allthough a price cuts was already in place since May, AMD pushed ahead with a further price cuts on desktop and mobile processors which peaks at 20 percent.
The company's flagpole processor, the Athlon XP 2200+ received the smallest cut, of 5 percent, dropping from USD 241 to 230. The immediately nest in line Athlon, the XP 2100+ received the highest cut, shedding USD 44 or 20 percent, from USD 224 to 180.
Price cuts were also introduced to Duron, mobile and MP processors. The full, new AMD processor price list is as follows:
Athlon XP Processor____________________Price (USD)
2200+________________________________________230
2100+________________________________________180
2000+________________________________________163
1900+________________________________________150
1800+________________________________________142
1700+________________________________________130
Athlon MP Processor_____________________Price (USD)
2100+________________________________________224
2000+________________________________________188
1900+________________________________________179
1800+________________________________________166
1600+________________________________________150
Mobile AMD Athlon XP Processor__________Price (USD)
1800+________________________________________335
1700+________________________________________210
1600+________________________________________185
1500+________________________________________175
1400+________________________________________150
Mobile Athlon 4 Processor Price (USD)
1600+________________________________________185
1500+________________________________________175
1.2GHz_______________________________________150
Mobile Duron Processor Price (USD)
1.3GHz_______________________________________120
1.2GHz________________________________________89
1.1GHz________________________________________69
Duron Processor for Desktop Price (USD)
1.3GHz________________________________________64
1.2GHz________________________________________64
Intel are expected to announce their own price cuts in a few weeks time when they introduce the Pentium 4 2.8 GHz.
