Intel CPU Prices Stagnate As AMD Sales Decline 252
crookedvulture writes "Over the past few years, AMD's desktop processors have struggled to keep up with Intel's. AMD has slashed prices to make its chips more appealing, but Intel has largely held firm. Three years of historical data shows that Intel CPU prices have remained stagnant, especially for models that cost $200 and up. AMD chips, on the other hand, tend to fall in price steadily after they first hit the market. Some drop by up to 43% in the first year. This trend is a byproduct of the unhealthy competitive landscape in the desktop CPU arena, and it's been great for Intel's gross margin. Unfortunately, it's not so good for consumers."
Re:AMD needs some high profile support (Score:0, Funny)
>> I would be kissing Tim Cook's ass so hard that he couldn't turn around without slapping me with his junk
Yes, yes...go on...and then what?
Re:Not enough price difference between AMD and Int (Score:5, Funny)
when their bet on Itanium failed.
But ... my HP rep tells me it is a fine architecture with a long future!
Re:Whats unhealthy about that? (Score:4, Funny)
Until you bump into an unoptimized game that barely can use two cores.
Yap, they are still out there. SC2, Total War series, WoW, ......
To be fair, Star Control 2 is pretty old and back then dual CPU setups were mostly limited to server situations. I think the fan recompile [sourceforge.net] might be better about threading.
Re:AMD needs some high profile support (Score:1, Funny)