Intel Reveals 16 New Sandy Bridge CPUs & Price Cuts

[May]

Intel Reveals 16 New Sandy Bridge CPUs & Price Cuts

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/int...uts,13355.html


Over the holiday weekend, Intel released 16
new "Sandy Bridge" processors (11 desktop and five mobile), along
with price cuts to existing "Sandy Bridge" chips

Cheers.

[hurley_bernard]

intel reveals 16 new sandy bridge cpus & price cuts

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/int...uts,13355.html


over the holiday weekend, intel released 16
new "sandy bridge" processors (11 desktop and five mobile), along
with price cuts to existing "sandy bridge" chips

cheers.:d:d

*intel gut punches amd*
*amd groans and runs off to make budget ati cards*

[Mark77]

Pretty boring. The i7-2600k remains king even though they could easily come out with a much faster derivative.

[soul_taker]

Those price cuts are hardly even worth mentioning.

[eldiablo]

a discount of ~4.4%. Wow.

[Coz4k]

a discount of ~4.4%. Wow.

This is almost hot as apple discounts that are around 3-5 %

HOT HOT HOT

[szetolf]

anything about these new chips other than targeting on a more budgeted market?

[ShadowVlican]

Pretty boring. The i7-2600k remains king even though they could easily come out with a much faster derivative.

Yeap, with nothing competitive in the high end market from AMD, there's no incentive for Intel do release anything faster

No competition sucks

[Zero1]

anything about these new chips other than targeting on a more budgeted market?

Look at the link. It shows chip targeting prices under $100 which is good for basic needs like web surfing, emails etc..

[LeeBear]

Look at the link. It shows chip targeting prices under $100 which is good for basic needs like web surfing, emails etc..

The $42 Celeron G530 looks like a perfect fit for a cheap HTPC or NAS. Even though its listed as 65W we know that in reality the 65W Pentium G630 uses about 35W under load, the Celery should be even less then that.

-LeeBear

[Hello-]

Pretty boring. The i7-2600k remains king even though they could easily come out with a much faster derivative.

Yeap, with nothing competitive in the high end market from AMD, there's no incentive for Intel do release anything faster

No competition sucks

+1. Have you noticed Intel has been slowly pushing back release dates. Why waste R&D dollars unnecessarily pushing out new chips when there's no competition. On the other hand AMD realizes that the mass market is moving away from extremely powerful cpu's since web browsing, media playback, spreadsheeting/word processing only require lowly dual cores.

[Matrixvibe]

a discount of ~4.4%. Wow.

Hey hey, thats a lot of money, you could easily use that towards an item at the dollar store ... 50 cents here, 50 cents there, u make dah one dolla!

[twitchyzero]

in other news...bulldozer finally shipped..but only server versions
AMD is pathetic...pretty much the reason why Intel hasn't been seeing significant price cut

[eldiablo]

This is almost hot as apple discounts that are around 3-5 %

HOT HOT HOT

quick, get the wheelbarrow full of cash.

[hurley_bernard]

in other news...bulldozer finally shipped..but only server versions
AMD is pathetic...pretty much the reason why Intel hasn't been seeing significant price cut

They shoulda called it BullDozed, cause that's what will happen to the AMD Bulldozer chips when Intel counters

P.S.: To all the people above moaning about lack of new chips etc.

Ask yourself: Do you need a faster/stronger chip? I've got a 3 year old Core i7 920, and I feel like I'm at the top of the world still (or at least high up there), it does everything I throw at it, with juice to spare! I don't even think AMD has anything on the market to counter my 3 year old chip! They didn't back then when I bought it, and I doubt they do now, even with a 3 year delay.

So why would R&D need to be spent to improve a product that's already top of the line?

Just pick these babies up and don't look back

Remember computing power doubles every 18 months, but I doubt you need the added power for tasks every 18 months.