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Rumour control: First Nehalem CPUs to be 33% cheaper
Flagship 3.2GHz Extreme chip could bring the price of top-end CPUs back to their previous level
Even a recent lottery winner would still probably think twice about spending £970.55 on a processor, so it's good to see that Intel may be revising its pricing strategy. In particular, it's rumoured that Intel may be reducing the price of its top-end Extreme series of processors when it releases its first Bloomfield-core CPUs later this year.
DigiTimes claims to have spoken to motherboard makers who have handed over details of Intel’s pricing strategy. The site claims that the 3.2GHz Extreme series Bloomfield will cost $999 US (£500.50) in quantities of 1,000, compared with the current Core 2 Extreme QX9770 which costs $1,499 US in the same quantities.
Of course, with the usual markup, you can expect the 3.2GHz Extreme Bloomfield to cost around £600, which is still a very high asking price, but it’s one that was previously common for the top cutting-edge chip. However, it’s good to see that Intel’s strategy of milking consumers for almost a grand to get the latest chip might not have worked as well as it had hoped.
As well as the 3.2GHz chip, DigiTimes also claims that Intel will introduce a 2.93GHz Bloomfield CPU that costs $562 US (£281.55), and a cheaper 2.66GHz chip for $284 US (£142.27). All the chips will use Intel’s new LGA1366 socket, says the site.
Last week, Nvidia announced that Intel’s forthcoming chipset for its Nehalem CPUs, X58, would support SLI through its nForce 200 chip. Nehalem will be Intel’s first desktop CPU architecture to feature an integrated memory controller, and the first Nehalem core is codenamed Bloomfield.
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Well I can see that AMD seem to be following VIAs way of doing things, so I'm gonna leave them be now and move on to Intel...
Comment by NikoBellic at 7:33pm 26th July 2008
Niko I thought in previous posts you were buying AMD to support them or some other load of tripe I remember. Now you want some Intel action? Oh how the times change ;)
Comment by pveater at 12:20pm 24th July 2008
Its done everything that I needed so far, its only recently that I have started to need a new CPU because I have started to use my system for other things as well :)
Comment by NikoBellic at 12:19pm 23rd July 2008
Im suprised you stuck with phlem.. i mean phenom for so long. :/
Comment by Lightning_Pete at 11:49am 23rd July 2008
It has to be remembered this pricing structure will be introduced for chip designs that intentionally greatly restrict the ability of the end user to overclock; thereby forcing the enthusiast market to stump up the cash for an extreme processor... they giveth and they taketh away ...
Comment by SeveBC at 1:21am 22nd July 2008
Stil Wouldnt spend that money even reduced to that :D Prefer Overclocking my CPU to attemp those speeds
Comment by The1p at 10:38pm 21st July 2008
Well All the more reason for me to make the move to intel this fall!! :)
Comment by NikoBellic at 6:57pm 21st July 2008
I think the q6600 and 8800GTX will still last a long time. No matter how cheap the Nehalem is there simply isn't a single reason to upgrade yet... Maybe to play Supreme Commander at higher than 10 min fps :P
Comment by Zhaoman at 5:25pm 21st July 2008
Thanks Ben. this news confims what market analysts have been suspecting ever since AMD published its huge losses...that the reason why AMD are making such huge losses is down solely to their lack of charging us our mothers & daughters for any of their processors and if they are to make any sort of turnaround, they need to start doing so soon. AMD say they are reviewing the situation and are even considering accepting grandmothers as well, but only if they pass their stringent cook-e makr benchmark program. AMD have also not ruled out fathers based on a similar DIY benchmark. Back in the real world, it does seem sensible for Intel to charge less for these new CPU's considering that they are getting more of them per wafer and that one of the best benefits of reduced die-sizes for the consumer is the hope of cheaper inital costs of the CPU's as well as reduced power consumption & CPU heat so hopefully Intel will slap itself on the wrist for trying to be so cheeky. Alternatively, if we all take on-board the great idea I had in the GTX280 price-drop article, and not buy the CPU's initially, then when Intel think "oh bugger, those consumers aren't as dumb as we think they are" and reduce their prices a bit more, then we'll be able to buy them at a sensible price.
Comment by EdArch at 4:02pm 21st July 2008
Intel have gone up a few notches in my books. Nice to read something good around here.
Comment by C7ouD at 4:06pm 21st July 2008
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