AMD to Cut "Trinity" APU Prices in April

[btarunr]

In an effort to clear inventories of its current-generation A-series "Trinity" desktop APUs, creating room for next-generation "Richland," AMD is preparing a string of price-cuts for April. APUs including (but probably not limited to) A8-5600K, and A4-4000 series could be part of these price cuts.

In addition to its APUs, AMD is also planning early price-cuts of some of its socket AM3+ CPUs, such as the FX-8320, FX-6300, and FX-4300, which is probably preemptive to Intel's June launch of Core "Haswell" desktop processors. AMD recently launched the mobile variants of its A-series "Richland" APUs, its desktop variants could be launched some time in Q2 2013, beginning with high-performance parts such as the A10-6800K and A8-6600K.

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[RCoon]

I have some AM3+ boards laying around, if the 6300 comes down far enough I'll probably grab 2 of those for my servers and LAN gaming systems.
Bintube streaming from RAR files loves those multithreads!

 

[The Quim Reaper]

Price isn't the problem.

 

[Jorge]

It's good news for consumers as AMD continues to provide excellent performance and value. Richland is just the first of many new products coming from AMD in the next 12 months.

 

[Solidstate89]

How much farther can they really continue to cut their prices? Their profit margins must be razor thin as it is.

 

[Krneki]

What would you suggest. Keep them in stock?

 

[newtekie1]

Awesome, I might just pick up an A8-5600K to replace my A8-5500 so I can actually overclock it, if the price is right. Though I might just wait for the A8-6600K. Picking up some cheap FX-8320s to replace my Phenom x6's would be nice too!

 

[erocker]

I hope that a bunch of new FM2 miniITX motherboards come out with Richland. I'll pick up a Trinity if prices are really good.

 

[seronx]

How much farther can they really continue to cut their prices? Their profit margins must be razor thin as it is.

To make a profit on the APU side AMD can drop the price of the highest bin part down to $65 and still be in business.

The CPU side of business needs to be on one node ahead of the APU side to be competitive to ARM and density/performance.

 

[HumanSmoke]

The CPU side of business needs to be on one node ahead of the APU side to be competitive to ARM and density/performance.

Is that a quip ?
afaia, that doesn't seem likely. Kaveri (APU) will debut before the Steamroller CPU, whose core logic Kaveri will use.

I was under the impression that AMD's x86 CPU business was dependant upon leveraging the architecture for enterprise systems...and that in turn was highly dependant on socket interoperability of C32/G34- a platform that is starting to show real signs of age. I noted that AMD's server market share sits at 5.7% (266,000 units sold)- pretty much flat from the previous quarters 5.2% given the supposed impact of Piledriver based Opterons.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

I hope that a bunch of new FM2 miniITX motherboards come out with Richland. I'll pick up a Trinity if prices are really good.

Yep, im currently waiting on Richland as well to go down to miniITX for my file server to turn it into a back up gamer as well.

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

Could someone explain what the deal is with the lack of miniITX on FM2? I mean it's a big WTF for me. For comparison there's 30 some for Intel's platform which makes a good deal less sense considering the graphics portion is much weaker. The platform seems aimless without that form factor. AM3 works better for big boards.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

Could someone explain what the deal is with the lack of miniITX on FM2? I mean it's a big WTF for me. For comparison there's 30 some for Intel's platform which makes a good deal less sense considering the graphics portion is much weaker. The platform seems aimless without that form factor. AM3 works better for big boards.

I was wondering that too. Only saw 3 on newegg. There will probably be a lot out for Richland FM3.(I think itll be FM3)

 

[newtekie1]

I was wondering that too. Only saw 3 on newegg. There will probably be a lot out for Richland FM3.(I think itll be FM3)

AFAIK, Richland will stick with FM2.

 

[ensabrenoir]

It's good news for consumers as AMD continues to provide excellent performance and value. Richland is just the first of many new products coming from AMD in the next 12 months.

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