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Hardware AMD Single Core Price Cuts for Ides of May
Anh Tuan Huynh (Blog) - April 30, 2006 12:01 AM

28 comment(s) - last by AzureKevin.. on May 6 at 11:49 PM

We have price forecasts for AMD's single core offerings for the month of May

We’ve received a new price forecast for AMD’s single core Athlon 64 and Sempron 64 processors for the month of May. The new price forecast shows price drops among the lower-end and mid-range product ranges. These processors vary from the Sempron 64 2800+ all the way up to the Athlon 64 3500+. Price drops vary from 10-15% on Athlon 64 3200+ and 3500+ models while Sempron 64 receive a 19-25% drop on the upper end 3400+ and 3300+ models. Lower-end Sempron models receive rather modest price drops of around 10-14%.

AMD Desktop Processor Price List
Processor (Retail)	Current	May 15, 2006
Athlon 64 3500+ S939	$203	$185
Athlon 64 3200+ S939	$154	$135
Athlon 64 3200+ S754	$154	$135
Sempron 3400+ S754	$118	$95
Sempron 3300+ S754	$108	$91
Sempron 3100+ S754	$93	$81
Sempron 3000+ S754	$83	$76
Sempron 2800+ S754	$73	$65

AMD Desktop Processor Price List
Processor (Tray)	Current	May 15, 2006
Athlon 64 3500+ S939	$208	$189
Athlon 64 3200+ S939	$158	$138
Athlon 64 3200+ S754	$158	$138
Sempron 3400+ S754	$120	$97
Sempron 3300+ S754	$110	$93
Sempron 3100+ S754	$95	$83
Sempron 3000+ S754	$85	$76
Sempron 2800+ S754	$74	$67

There is no word on price forecasts on AMD’s dual core and higher end 4000+ single core processors. If you are interested in the AM2 launch prices, please refer to our previous article containing these price details. AM2 processors are expected to launch the week after the 939/754 price cuts, on May 23, 2006.

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Prices?

By phaxmohdem on 4/30/2006 1:30:41 AM , Rating: 2

Why are tray procs, more expensive than their retail boxed counterparts?

RE: Prices?

By Ecmaster76 on 4/30/2006 1:43:49 AM , Rating: 2

Seriously, now you have to pay for not throwing away the heatsink.

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RE: Prices?

By KristopherKubicki

(blog) on 4/30/2006 1:59:14 AM , Rating: 2

I have a theory for this, but it may not be correct.

AMD nor Intel sell "tray" processors anymore. If you buy a tray processor these days, its from the gray-market, which means someone sold you a processor that was allocated for a system build only. AMD has cracked down on this very hard over the last 6 months. I think their logic is that a system integrator can eat the 2-3 cost on the chip without much issue and further discourage the SI from selling the chip back into the retail channel.

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RE: Prices?

By Tris on 4/30/2006 2:50:42 AM , Rating: 2

quote:
[b]AM2[/b] processors are expected to launch the week after the [b]AM2[/b] price cuts, on May 23, 2006.

Is that right?? Doesn't seem to be logical...

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RE: Prices?

By covertbit on 4/30/2006 2:54:24 AM , Rating: 2

Of course it is, they want to get the old stock off the market so people will be able to stock the new stuff. Its simple economics 101. Liquidate to make room for the newer processors. They do this with anything, video cards, hard drives, etc.

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RE: Prices?

By KristopherKubicki

(blog) on 4/30/2006 3:10:05 AM , Rating: 2

That second AM2 should read 939/754

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RE: Prices?

By KHysiek on 4/30/2006 3:35:01 AM , Rating: 2

That's not true and these prices can't be right (box/oem). I (small computer firm) can buy and sell oem (tray) cpus without problems in computer wholesale company (the one which sells computer parts). These processors are available widely in our computer shop and are typically 10-15% cheaper than boxes.

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RE: Prices?

By KristopherKubicki

(blog) on 4/30/2006 3:50:35 AM , Rating: 2

It's straight from the AMD sheets. I double checked to make sure Tray/Box weren't flipped.

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RE: Prices?

By KristopherKubicki

(blog) on 4/30/2006 3:52:31 AM , Rating: 2

Furthermore, I wanted to point out that the major movements to stop tray processors in the retail channel have been in North America. In Eastern Europe the supply chain is very different and still developing.

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What about the Intel 50% price cuts?

By ShapeGSX on 4/30/2006 11:05:08 AM , Rating: 1

So you post an article about AMD's meager price cuts, but didn't post anything about Intel's 50% price cuts on dual core processors? What's up with that?

RE: What about the Intel 50% price cuts?

By Spoonbender on 4/30/2006 11:27:01 AM , Rating: 1

What did you expect? It's obviously a conspiracy. They're being paid, bribed by AMD to do this! There can be no other explanation!

Intel ought to sue them for this unfair treatment

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RE: What about the Intel 50% price cuts?

By ShapeGSX on 4/30/2006 4:00:56 PM , Rating: 2

I don't think it is a conspiracy. I don't even think it is biased. I just think it is shoddy reporting.

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RE: What about the Intel 50% price cuts?

By mendocinosummit on 4/30/2006 6:04:50 PM , Rating: 2

Didn't they only cut their prices drastically only on their 90nm dual procs that were being phased out because they basically suck.

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RE: What about the Intel 50% price cuts?

By ShapeGSX on 4/30/2006 7:55:04 PM , Rating: 2

The Pentium D 9xx series is all 65nm, not 90nm. The 8xx series was 90nm.

The Pentium D 950 (3.4GHz, 65nm) is now just $316. Week before last, it was $637.

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RE: What about the Intel 50% price cuts?

By KristopherKubicki

(blog) on 4/30/2006 7:27:31 PM , Rating: 2

http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1619

Try again.

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RE: What about the Intel 50% price cuts?

By ShapeGSX on 4/30/2006 7:51:17 PM , Rating: 2

Sorry about that. I looked for a post last week when the prices actually happened, but didn't look for a post from earlier in the month.

My mistake. Forgive me? ;-)

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Did i miss something here?

By Danthemanz007 on 4/30/2006 7:28:09 PM , Rating: 2

What ever happened to 939 Sempron's?

RE: Did i miss something here?

By kmmatney on 4/30/2006 11:53:37 PM , Rating: 2

Since Socket 754 is now going to be supported through 2007 (I'm pretty sure I heard that) there will probably never be a S939 Sempron.

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RE: Did i miss something here?

By mendocinosummit on 5/1/2006 2:26:33 AM , Rating: 2

There out there in comps some of the big computer manufacture companies, I am not sure what ones. I do know that they made them for them so they wouldn't have to have more than one motherboard. I heard you can get find them in Eastern Europe????

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RE: Did i miss something here?

By lsman on 5/2/2006 9:14:39 AM , Rating: 2

you can get it (939 sempron tray) in China

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RE: Did i miss something here?

By deeznuts on 5/3/2006 7:09:05 PM , Rating: 2

I had one shipped from Australia, off ebay.

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good news

By AzureKevin on 5/6/2006 11:49:52 PM , Rating: 2

This is good news.

I was planning to build a new computer during the summer, but with the up-coming releases of so many new products, I've decided to hold off until December or even January.

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AMD price cuts.....

By crystal clear on 4/30/06, Rating: 0

RE: AMD price cuts.....

By Furen on 4/30/2006 7:19:32 AM , Rating: 2

The price cuts are quite nice. I'm particularly glad that Semprons will all be under 100 bucks, it seems to me that there was too much of an overlap between the low-end A64s and the Semprons. Another thing that's nice is the fact that the 2600+ seems to be about to be phased out so the cheapest Sempron will be a 256kB L2 part.

Of course we'll all like AMD to release an X2 3400+ part for ~200 but I think that in the next couple of months we'll see the X2 3800+ get remarkably close to this, especially if AMD's production allows it to continue its rapid growth and still leaves extra capacity for a greater dual-core push.

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