More AMD price cuts announced

February 12th, 2007

“Advanced Micro Devices, which announced a change in the pricing structure of several of its dual-core Opteron chips Feb. 7, is preparing to lower the prices on several of its dual-core and single-core desktop Athlon processors. The most dramatic drop in prices involves the high-end Athlon 64 X2 5600+, which is clocked at 2.8Ghz and has a total of 2MB of L2 cache, which will fall from $505 per 1,000 units to $326, according to the company. The other major price job involves the Athlon 64 X2 5400+, a processor that runs at 2.8GHz and has 1MB of L2 cache. AMD will reduce the cost of this processor by $218, from $485 to $267, the company said…” (Read full article here)

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