Wednesday, February 22nd 2012
Intel Might Make Up for Ivy Bridge Delay With Lower Prices
Intel was reportedly planning to limit mass-shipments of its third-generation Core processors (codenamed: "Ivy Bridge") to notebook ODMs, to help in digestion of swelling inventories of current-generation "Sandy Bridge" Core processors. Only a few models (those targeting Ultrabooks and mainstream notebooks) are expected to face delays till June, performance desktop retail processors will most likely not be affected, their launch is on-course for April.
To make up for the delay, Intel will might lower prices of its Ivy Bridge chips by as much as $70 a piece. The lower prices would ease transition between the two generations of processors without causing a price-shock to ODMs, when they then have to transfer to the end-users. Intel already attractive pricing for its Sandy Bridge CPUs to help clear inventories. The result of all this would be Ivy Bridge-powered notebooks being not much more expensive than current-generation Sandy Bridge-powered ones, on launch.
Source:
Electronista
To make up for the delay, Intel will might lower prices of its Ivy Bridge chips by as much as $70 a piece. The lower prices would ease transition between the two generations of processors without causing a price-shock to ODMs, when they then have to transfer to the end-users. Intel already attractive pricing for its Sandy Bridge CPUs to help clear inventories. The result of all this would be Ivy Bridge-powered notebooks being not much more expensive than current-generation Sandy Bridge-powered ones, on launch.
37 Comments on Intel Might Make Up for Ivy Bridge Delay With Lower Prices
Same performance? The average customer probably upgrades once every 4-5 years, the performance will never be the same. The customers whom are contemplating upgrading to Ivy Bridge are most likely going to be coming from a Core 2 Solo/Dual or Pentium D so same performance won't ever happen.
Overheating? When does the average customer care about heat? As long as it browses the internet and Facebook works they are happy. I cannot see the average consumer poking in the bios and downloading Speed Fan to monitor their temperature.
Intel will want to be producing with as high margins as possible, that means they won't go balls out for processing power, instead they'll optimise things for different objectives. The advantage they have over AMD is that they can release more performance by pushing the TDP if they have to.
If the "average customer" was a gamer liking laptops then he would upgrade his laptop to play the latest games and observed the performance difference and eventual heat problems. I know GPU is much more important than CPU for games but let's assume this gamer does not got for the top i7, he goes for a i3 or low i5. As for the memory i see no drastic increases in quantity of preinstalled memory in laptops, it's at the 2-3gb mark for some time now.
Someone could argue that that is a enthusiast, well i know "average users" who go for performance without a real reason and i know "average users" that don't afford getting a pc every 4-5 years.
I think there is a long discussion here about what makes a customer average, is it the knowledge about PC's, is it the requirement for performance or it is the amount of money he wants to spend on a pc. I't is hard for me to asses that because i'm not in the position of being an "average user" and probably the same applies to all the forum members. :)
Seriously, the LARGE majority of society are 100% tech STUPID!
and I agree..... I was a diehard AMD for years, and had to turn my back on them because of their abysmal BD performance. It was a decent processor, at a decent price, but not the scream machine we'd been looking for. She's right. Grab an Intel for the powerhouse it is, stay away from the toppest of the top, and save yourself a grand or two, but go intel.... in shame....