Intel cuts desktop prices by up to 50%
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Aggressive 1333MHz FSB pricing strategy Intel has slashed the price of a number of its desktop and mobile processors, but the cuts, while deep, aren't as extensive as anticipated. However, the move confirms an aggressive pricing plan for the chip maker's 1333MHz frontside bus parts.â¦
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Intel is moving to reduce its chip inventory and make way for new products by deeply discounting some of its Pentium 4 and Itanium processors.
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Advanced Micro Devices significantly reduced prices on its high-end desktop CPUs; mobile chips remain the same.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- First Albany lowered its stock price target for Intel (INTC) to $24 from $30 following the chip sector bellwether&#39;s lowered third-quarter revenue and margin outlook.
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Order backlog cleared? Dell UK has formally upgraded its XPS 700 gaming machine to include Intel's Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme desktop processors, dropping the Pentium D chip the system was originally specified with.â¦
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Dell Inc. DELL.O on Monday said  it had cut prices across a broad range of products aimed at  U.S. corporate customers as the computer maker passed along  price declines in underlying components.
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(InfoWorld) - ClearCube Technology Inc. slashed prices on its PC blades Monday, setting the company up to compete with standard desktop and tower vendors like Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. Until now, ClearCube has sold its computers mainly to customers in health care, financial services and government, who were willing pay a premium for streamlined IT management and increased security. Customers throughout an office use book-sized "I/Ports" to connect via Ethernet cable to a single, centralized PC blade that holds their data and processors. The company's new A Series PC blade and I8330 I/Port access device cost about US$1,300 including monitors and keyboards. That is a steep drop from the $3,000 it has cost for ClearCube's R Series blade system, and approaching the $800 cost of a comparable tower, said ClearCube Chief Executive Carl Boisvert. "Before, we had been successful in niches; we didn't have a solution because of price for full-out desktop replacement. Now we've reached pricing parity for a full tower," he said. "With the advent of the A Series, we can sell into areas we walked away from before." ClearCube cut the cost of the system by giving up some density; the A Series fits in a 6U enclosure compared to the R Series' 3U size. The company also saved on its processors, as Intel Corp. continues cutting prices to sell its last-generation Pentium 4 chips. Still, the new system will be compatible with remote devices such as tablets and PDAs (personal digital assistants), despite ClearCube's switching from Microsoft Corp.'s Remote Desktop Protocol to its own proprietary software called Transparent Desktop Extension. The A Series offers USB (Universal Serial Bus) redirection, a function that allows an I/Port user to download data from the blade onto a portable disk or key, and to use two-way peripherals like scanners and printers. The company plans to add more features by June 2007 in a second-generation product, improving video streaming speed from 35 frames per second to 65 frames per second to support the heavy graphics demands of multi-monitor workstations, Boisvert said. The price cut will help ClearCube, of Austin, Texas, compete in a much larger market, said Mark Margevicius, an analyst with Gartner Inc. "The hangup there is that customers compare their products to normal PCs, and the finance officers throw up a red flag at anything that costs more. So their customers have been the ones who are willing to pay for their value proposition," he said. ClearCube is charging $290 for the I8330 I/Port and $999 for the Model A1010 PC blade with an Intel Corp. Pentium 4 model 531 processor, 80G byte serial ATA hard drive and 512M bytes of DDR memory. Â ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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In its ongoing battle with rival Intel, AMD announced the latest round of desktop CPU price cuts today. Check out this and other original content on CNET's blog network.
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(InfoWorld) - The global chip market is suffering from falling prices in microprocessors and memory chips, bad news for companies but great for users. Steep declines in DRAM (dynamic RAM) for PCs and NAND flash memory, used in a variety of gadgets including digital cameras and iPods, as well as microprocessors prompted the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) to slash its global sales forecast for this year to US$252 billion, just 1.8 percent growth compared to last year. The previous estimate called for sales growth of 10 percent this year. Sales of gadgets themselves are on track to meet forecasts, however, SIA said. Chip shipments overall remain healthy, as does end-user demand. But prices continue to fall for a variety of reasons, including a glut in the memory market and a price war between Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in microprocessors. "End markets continue to be strong, with consumers realizing major benefits from lower chip prices coupled with ever-increasing performance and functionality from advances in chip technology. Despite a forecast of slower growth, we expect that global sales of microchips will surpass last yearâs record level," the SIA said in a statement on Wednesday. Intel and AMD have been battling each other through price reductions for over a year now, and reports indicate that Intel will cut prices on some microprocessors again in late July. The price war has been good to consumers, delivering more technically advanced microprocessors at a lower cost. Microprocessors are generally the most expensive chip inside a PC. The DRAM market has been hit the worst. The price of mainstream 512M-bit second-generation double data rate (DDR2) DRAM that runs at 667MHz has plunged 72 percent so far this year to US$1.79 per chip, according to DRAMeXchange Technology Inc., a Taiwanese clearinghouse for the chips. The market research division of the company has noted that the chips appear to be bottoming out, and that prices could tick up a bit later this month. DRAM price reductions for users normally come a few weeks or a month after the spot DRAM market falls. NAND Flash memory has suffered a similar fate as DRAM, but not quite as steep a decline. A glut of the chips early in the year has been wiped out by memory makers, which tweaked production lines to make more DRAM instead of NAND flash. Prices of 8G byte NAND has fallen 18 percent his year to US$9.26, according to DRAMeXchange, while the 4G byte capacity has dropped nearly 15 percent to US$5.69. The SIA expects PC and mobile phone sales to rise 10 percent each this year. Mobile phone sales may give chips a bigger boost, however, because users are buying more 3G (third generation communications) handsets, which contain more chips than older phones. Sales of personal media players and digital music players are expected to grow by more than 20 percent this year, SIA said, but noted that price competition in the market will likely keep NAND flash chip prices tame. The SIA report followsÂ a similar estimation of the global chip industry by Gartner. A few weeks ago, the market researcher lowered its forecast to just 2.5 percent growth to US$269.2 billion this year, down from an earlier estimate of 6.4 percent. Â ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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(InfoWorld) - Dell Inc. has stepped away from long-time supplier Intel Corp., launching one desktop that spurns the chipmaker's vPro business bundle and two others that use processors from chipmaking competitor Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). Dell will still build its new Dimension E520 and XPS 210 desktop PCs with a choice of Intel's Pentium D or Core 2 Duo processors, the company said Tuesday. But for the first time, Dell will offer a choice of AMD's Athlon and Sempron chips in the new Dimension E521 and C521 models. For its new OptiPlex 745 business desktop, Dell said it developed its own bundle of business-friendly technologies instead of using Intel's vPro platform. Intel has seen strong sales in recent years for bundles of software and hardware such as its Centrino package for wireless notebook PCs. The company launched vPro in September as an effort to extend that strategy to business desktops. The company did not rule out the chance that it might add Intel's bundle to future desktops, but said vPro had to mature first. "We'll continue to work with Intel to help them refine the technology," said Dell's chief technology officer, Kevin Kettler. He spoke during the company's annual Technology Day meeting in New York. "There's still work to be done to drive that technology as a fundamental, strong value for our end customers." He compared the current vPro bundle to early iterations of hardware-based security in Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips. "Dell was a slow adopter of TPM, and that's not because we didn't know about them or forgot to ask about them. There are some cases where we've ultimately used a technology but waited for it to mature a little bit before adopting it," Kettler said. Dell competitors Hewlett-Packard Co. and Gateway Inc. both launched vPro-enabled desktops last week, prompting some analysts to ask why Dell was lagging despite its close relationship to Intel. The answer is that Dell was assembling its own business bundle. The company's OptiPlex 745 boosts security and eases IT management while reducing power draw. Those are the same selling points as vPro, and the Dell system even uses similar components, like Intel's new Core 2 Duo processor and a TPM security chip. The difference is that Dell chooses and integrates the remaining pieces, retaining more control over the final product. In October, Dell will add its own Client Manager module to the system, allowing IT managers to remotely boot and troubleshoot thousands of client systems from a single site. Intel does that trick with its Active Management Technology (AMT). Likewise, Dell chose its own partner for security and password protection, using Wave Systems Corp.'s Embassy Trust Suite. Dell sells the OptiPlex 745 with a Core 2 Duo E6300 processor for US$899. The XPS 210 costs $1,190 for a premium entertainment package. The Dimension E520 and E521 will go on sale Wednesday for $719 and $329, both with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP Media Center OS, dual-core processors and multimedia options. The Dimension C521 will cost $359 but take up just half the space compared to the E520 and E521. In another announcement Tuesday, Dell is extending its relationship with EMC Corp., adding another five years to their partnership in selling storage products such as the Dell/EMC AX100 and CX3 UltraScale networked storage systems. Together, the two companies have sold 34,000 networked storage systems to 10,000 customers since founding their alliance in 2001.
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Intel Corp. slashed prices across its Pentium 4 and Itanium product lines Sunday as it prepares for its biannual developer conference in San Francisco at the beginning of September.
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Attention, notebook shoppers: Intel drops the cost of Pentium Ms and Centrino--a sign that cheaper laptops are on the way.
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Dell on Monday dropped prices on select servers, workstations, desktops, and laptops aimed at corporate customers, saying it was passing along lower component costs to buyers.
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As expected, Intel announced late Tuesday a new wave of job cuts as part of the company's reorganization plan, first detailed last April. 10,500 jobs will be cut over the next two years, and Intel expects to save $2 billion by the next of next year.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Sep. 6--NEW YORK -- Intel Corp. said Tuesday it will cut 10,500 jobs, or  about 10 percent of its total workforce, by mid-2007 to cope with harsh price  competition in the semiconductor industry.
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Intel, the world's largest computer chip manufacturer, will cut 10,500 jobs, or about 10% of its total staff.
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Great deals? The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has negotiated price cuts of 45 per cent on computer hardware supplied through its Catalist framework agreements, it said yesterday.â¦