Half Price Pentium D's
 

Intel has captured the initiative in the dual core desktop market by lowballing the Pentium D's at half the price of the AMD X2's. ExtremeTech gives some insight into the how and why.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1820856,00.asp

"The discrepancy casts the differences between AMD and Intel into sharp focus. All of Intel's production fabs are producing wafers using 90-nm wafers; AMD has but a single fab. As AMD and Intel segment their product lines to meet the needs of divergent markets, AMD's fab capacity may be stretched thinner."

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