Intel Launches Low Cost Chips

schliz writes "Intel has announced a new quad core and dual-core processor at the bottom end of its price and specification range and a new Celeron chip. The Q8200 is a 2.33-GHz quad-core chip with 4Mb of level-2 cache, the lowest of any quad-core processor."

This tech site sucks.

[CyberBill]

The new processor is the second cheapest in Intelâ(TM)s quad core range and is priced at US$224 per thousand.

Thats supposed to be "US$224 each in quantities of one thousand", not $224 per thousand, implying they each cost 22.4 cents.

Re:This is the stupidest launch ever.

[Anonymous Coward]

Not a big deal, but don't forget the Q8200 has a faster FSB, support for SSE4.1, lower power consumption, etc.

Re:This is the stupidest launch ever.

[yeremein]

Q8200 is a 45nm chip vs. the 65nm Q6600, so it comes with lower power consumption and allegedly slightly better IPC than the older core--so it should perform about the same.

The real complaint about the Q8200 is that it's missing the virtualization technology that's present in the Q6600 and the Q9000-series.