Core Duo Costs an Arm & Both Legs

Mathew Everett 9 May, 2006 at 10:31am ET Article published in Tech

Intel has given us a peak at its new desktop line in regards to specs and benchmarks, but has not given much to go on for the price. Until now, it is rumored the Core Duo 2500 is reported to cost a staggering $2,200 per chip.

how can Intel get away with selling the “brains” of a computer at such a high premium? After all, the chipset and every other piece of electronics on the Asus board is the acme of technology.

Wow, AMD’s AM2 is looking real good in my eyes.

Source: The Inquirer

Comments

10 May 2006 ~ 12:11am this item should be removed...if you bother to follow the links you see that the core duo 2500 (2M L2, 2.0GHZ, 667mhz FSB, 65nm) cost $423.

eveyone getting excited over a typo.....geez.

-ryko
10 May 2006 ~ 12:35am Sledgehammer70 That is why it says Rumor...
10 May 2006 ~ 1:11am Winga If INTEL wants to win market share back from Nvidia they may as well close their doors if they try sell their Core Duo's at that price. They arrogant, but they not stupid.
I tend to agree with ryko. The boys at the Inquirer were burning "special" insence when they wrote that article.
10 May 2006 ~ 1:53am Leonardo

it is rumored the Core Duo 2500 is reported to cost a staggering $2,200 per chip

The only realistic word in that phrase is "rumored." Although Intel is a marketing company that happens to make microcircuitry products, they aren't so stupid as to let AMD take even more market share without a fight. I think Intel has awakened from their drunken idiocy of the last two years.

But maybe, just maybe, they really will continue to be stupid, and there will be a glut of Conroes on the market, and I can snatch them up on Ebay for a song like I did my 820s... nah, but it was a nice thought.
10 May 2006 ~ 2:11am Thrax Consider the news source. PC Insiders know that the Inq is virtually never wrong.
10 May 2006 ~ 9:56am lemonlime Based on the info in that PDF file, I'd say the pricing is actually very competitive and realistic.
13 May 2006 ~ 11:52am mmonnin

Thrax wrote:

Consider the news source. PC Insiders know that the Inq is virtually never wrong.

Yep what they find out before anyone else usually comes out to be truth in the end.
15 May 2006 ~ 4:09am Jengo

mmonnin wrote:

Yep what they find out before anyone else usually comes out to be truth in the end.

i hope you guys are being umm.. whats that word... umm... oh yeah! Sarcastic. I hope you guys are being sarcastic!
15 May 2006 ~ 4:09am Thrax Nope.