Chipzilla gearing up to drop prices
 

Temperature’s Ryzen at Intel HQ

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Intel is going to drop its prices in a move to spoil AMD’s Ryzen 3000 launch.

AMD’s full Ryzen 3000 family of processors arrive in two weeks and there are serpentine mutterings in Chipzilla’s HQ that they will have a bad effect on Intel chip sales.

The company is reportedly planning to reduce the price of its eighth- and ninth-generation CPUs by 10 to 15 percent.

The report comes from DigiTimes, citing sources from motherboard makers. It claims Intel has already notified its downstream PC and motherboard partners about the processor price drops, which could see anything from $25 to $75 knocked off the CPUs.

This means that the enthusiast eight-core/16-thread Core i9 9900K will be one of the chips to see a price reduction, as will the i7-9700K, and the i5-9600K. We’ll have to wait and see how much any potential changes affect the retail market, as they may be aimed more at OEMs.

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