http://gigaom.com/2008/11/12/recession-hits-intel-where-it-hurts/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:31:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2008/11/12/recession-hits-intel-where-it-hurts/#comment-152271 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:03:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=29063#comment-152271 [...] pumping out as many Atom processors as they can.  It’s not been enough though given their recent financial picture and things may get a bit rockier for the chipmaker as rival ARM has told Laptop Magazine they [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2008/11/12/recession-hits-intel-where-it-hurts/#comment-152270 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:08:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=29063#comment-152270 The Intel Dilemma: While developers want more and more powerful processors, their customers do not. Case in point: the dual-dual-core Q6600, which is *finally* about to be EOLed after a two-year stretch at the bottom of Intel’s quad-core CPU chain. (Note: during the Q6600′s overlong lifetime, two other quad-core processors from Intel have come and gone.) The Q6600 is a conundrum: too weak for servers (it originally launchesd as the XEON X3220), too hot for notebooks, and apparently too powerful for an entry-level CPU (it has a retail street price of no more than $200USD in single-unit quantities). What are customers buying? Dual-core and more dual-core (C2D, Pentium and even Celeron dual-cores, such as the E1200 and newer E1500), despite the Q6600 now undercutting Intel’s last major mainstream CPU, the Pentium 4 Northwood-C’s price at its heyday; in some cases, they are actually willing to pay *more* for a 45nm dual-core than for a Q6600 (even though that strikes *me* as Just Plain Wrong).

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