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Originally Posted by Jukov
lets hope that they are doing this for us. lets hope that their fast chip will be at $100 or lower.
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They are not doing this for us. They are doing this to make money. Every company is like this.
Intel will price their chip competitively, but they will have to still make a profit from the chip. The more powerful it is, the more work will have had to have gone into the chip's design, the more complex the chip will be and the more expensive to produce the chip will be. The more complex the chip the higher the failure rate will be when producing the chips. So unless Intel sells the chips for a loss they will be priced in the same $/performance range as ATi and Nvidia chips, pricing it any lower would not make any business sense.
And ATi/Nvidia's pricing of late has been brilliant due to the price wars - look at the new Ati 4770 - for $99 you get amazing performance compared to a few months ago.
Saying that i am looking forward to seeing how Larabee fares, though i do believe it will take a couple of generations for it to be refined enough to truly compete.
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Originally Posted by Jukov
what did they do to get fined 1 billion euros??????
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Back when AMD had released the first Athlon64 processors (which were a LOT more powerful than Intel's best chips - the Pentium 4s) Intel did some illegal deals with PC manufacturers saying "we'll sell you our chips for slightly less but you are not allowed to buy AMD chips at all". They did it to make money, and to cripple AMDs sales as much as possible so Intel could sell their slower chips in decent quantities.
To put it into perspective for you it would be like Larabee being the most powerful GPU available and ATi and Nvidia saying to pc manufacturers "we will only sell you our GPUs if you don't buy Intel Larabees", and because ATi and Nvidia chips are already in tons of pc configurations the manufacturers would have to agree. Obviously that won't happen but it's comparable to what Intel actually did.