Chip Wars, Episode II: AMD Strikes Back!

Intel_pentium_2_1Although Intel claims they’re "on a diplomatic mission", the hack-and-slash of their CPU prices recently sent expected ripples in The Force. Clearly, AMD felt their presence as they’ve just announced their own price cuts for October, in an apparent retaliatory strike. DigiTimes apparently intercepted a transmission from AMD indicating prices on some Turion and Sempron CPUs will drop in price between 16 and 35%. All evil galactic plans aside, is anyone besides me wondering if and when we’ll hear about AMD chips in UMPCs as we previously heard? I’m starting to suspect it’s not going to happen based on Intel’s aggressive and pre-emptive price cutting. Then again, it’s never wise to use The Force in predicting the mobile future; if it was then Obi-Won would have seen that portable mass-destruction of the Death Star coming an eon away. ;)

-kct

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