Friday, December 2nd 2011
AMD Bulldozer A Surprisingly Sell-Out Sales Success. Victims: Phenom II & Athlon II
AMD's new Bulldozer "FX" series of processors may be very lacklustre performers in reviewer's benchmarks and have garnered considerable scorn in enthusiast circles, but they're a very good performer for AMD's bottom line. Incredibly, they are selling out as soon as shops get them in stock - and they are not even priced very competitively against Intel's offerings, so perhaps the "It's an 8 core CPU!!" marketing is working well on the uninformed "enthusiast" after all? Mind you, what enthusiast, however uninformed, wouldn't know exactly how these products perform? Every tech website and computer magazine has covered these chips by now. The mind boggles.
Unfortunately, the victims of this unwarranted success are the decent Phenom II & Athlon II processors, which have always been priced very well, giving good value for money and are good sellers. The reason is that the manufacturing plants share equipment between these old 45 nm products and the new 32 nm ones, creating a conflict between them, so one must go. It therefore makes sound business sense for AMD to discontinue selling the old product in favour of the new, expensive one which is flying off the shelves. AMD will stop shipping all Athlon II's and Phenom II's to distributors, but with one exception. The "Zosma" 6 core Phenom II X4 960T will continue to be available until stocks run dry. This has two cores disabled, making it a "quad" core CPU, but with luck they might be unlockable. To state the obvious, if one is considering buying one of these discontinued chips, then they'd better not wait long.
Source:
Nordic Hardware
175 Comments on AMD Bulldozer A Surprisingly Sell-Out Sales Success. Victims: Phenom II & Athlon II
Good move for AMD and consumers.
Note: nothing to do with qubit posting both hes just copying news.
just incase I get flamed
i just had to.
I don't get where all this disdain comes from. AMD always said that BD was aimed at Core i5 performance, they NEVER said that BD was going to tear Intel a new one but everyone and their mother assumed that when they branded the new CPUs as FX.
As I've stated in other threads about this, AMD's marketing is the weak link. They must have anticipated that by going by the FX name everyone's expectations would get up considerably, way waaaaaaaayyyy above reality,even if AMD ALWAYS stated that it wasn't the case.
And this is coming from an ATintel fanboy.
Still ...the bottom line is its your money, buy what ever makes you happy.
I guess having morals costs me to miss out on some performance- I can live with that just fine. furthermore, it is because of AMD fanboys that AMD has stayed afloat all of these years which has influenced your precious Intel to keep it's ASPs much lower for the majority of their chips
I get disgusted with people with no backbone
My suggestion is not to let these moral issues get in the way of you buying an Intel CPU to get better performance.
I also tend to go for the underdogs. besides if we were all Intel fans then all of our wallets would probably be fucked
I live life with a backbone. screw anyone that pisses me off- they dont get my cash