06-24-2019, 10:10 PM
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/29...000-launch
Quote:According to DigiTimes (subscription required), Intel could cut CPU prices by up to 15 percent in response to AMD’s upcoming Ryzen parts, and it’s already notified motherboard manufacturers of this change. It’s possible that Intel will take this step, but judging by the company’s actions since before AMD introduced Ryzen in 2017, it’s pretty unlikely.
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What Intel hasn’t done in all this time, however, is actually cut its CPU prices as such. Instead, the company has simply waited until it was time to introduce a new generation of parts and positioned the new CPUs more advantageously than the old. This has allowed Chipzilla to adjust its pricing to account for AMD’s competitiveness without incurring headlines like “Intel Could Cut CPU Prices Ahead of AMD’s Ryzen 3000 Launch.”
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Based on Intel’s actions to-date and its competitive response to Ryzen, we suspect the company will cut prices only as much as it has to. It may or may not be willing to do so before the Ryzen 3000 family launches, and it could choose to focus price cuts on specific SKUs where it needs to improve its competitive standing rather than making across-the-board slashes. At the same time, it isn’t clear how much room Intel has to maneuver without finally making some price cuts on at least some parts. We’ll have to see how Ryzen 7nm parts stand competitively before saying more.