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But Intel asked for this war with those crazed Core 2 prices. Hopefully it won't backfire.
Actually, the statement that this is a price war that Intel started is a bit misleading. Typically the primary characterisic of a price war is when a company lowers product prices across the board to undercut competition. Intel has not done this. If you look at where their prices were for consumer products over the last few years they've been pretty consitent...enthusiast CPUs for $1,000-$1,200 all the way down to the inexpensive entry level CPUs. It just so happens that Intel has LOTs of price flexibility with their entry level CPUs these days because they can afford to lower prices for older more mature processes/CPUs.
From AMDs perspecitive, yes it's a price war because they have to drastically reduce their prices across the board to bring their value proposition in line with Intel counterparts.