News AMD vs. Intel CPU Market Share: 7nm Makes Landfall as Price War Begins

[joeblowsmynose]

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Intel had to drop prices in HEDT, because you can't charge 2 to 3 times more for basically the same product that your only competitor is selling.

The severe price cuts are a market correction brought on by competition from AMD, to where prices should have been had AMD been competing all along. These price cuts don't cheapen the Intel brand because they don't undercut AMD anywhere.
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Well then the solution could be had by simply offering better products for the same price then ... was this not the strategy in how Intel went from a 4 core flagship to an 8 core flagship (100% more compute power) for around a similar price in just a couple years? What is stopping them from continuing this trend ... ? Think about it. Shareholders are the only thing Intel really cares about and how the perceive the value of the Intel brand is pretty much the most important thing to Intel.

Do you think that shareholders seeing Intel cut its processors prices by 50% sit back and think ... "well I enjoyed the bubble while it lasted ..."? Even if they did it would still cheapen the brand in their eyes -- this has nothing to do with consumers and if you have been paying attention to Intel at all you know they'd throw their enthusiast customers under a bus to impress their investors -- this is how the bubble started - because they have no problems doing that at all. All their ridiculous marketing shenanigans recently were aimed at their investors and it got the job done ... investors generally aren't enthusiasts and don't read enthusiast sites and forums - they read headlines and watch Intel presentations. Intel has been taking the chances in trying to impress investors despite what their enthusiast customers may think.

To say that both Intel's Intel's mainstream parts doubling core count for a similar price (doubling the value), and thier recent extreme price cuts have nothing to do with AMDs massive advancements in innovation lately, is just silly.