Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon to Consumers

Re:Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon t... by positivecomment on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @05:01AM (#14443856)

I'm personally looking forward to the times that this competition drastically lowers the price of mid-range CPUs for the benefit of the normal people who don't buy CPUs for 2000$.

(Yes, I know that "normal people" don't even buy laptops anymore, let alone desktops. Please excuse my fantasy-world in which people buy desktop computers and even upgrade the amplifiers of their at least 7-piece stereo sound system)

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Re:Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon t... by lhl on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @05:43AM (#14444044)

The AMD Ryzen R7 1700 is a $320 8 core/16 thread processor. Intel's cheapest 8 core/16 thread processor is their i7-6900K which sells for $1049. Even their 6/12 i7-6850K is over $600.

IMO the Ryzen R7's have been a huge "mid-end" win for anyone doing any sort of multicore/CPU intensive work. Without competition, Intel's been gouging the market for the past few years.

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Re:Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon t... by drzaiusapelord on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @09:57AM (#14445373)

>drastically lowers the price of mid-range CPUs

Well, I think the current mid-range Ryzen's offer significant value and I imagine OEMs will start including them into their popular models sooner than later.

6 cores at 3.6ghz with a 4.0ghz boost for $239.

https://www.amazon.com/AMD-Ryzen-1600X-Processor-YD160XBCAEW...

More than likely we won't see any kind of price war. Instead we'll see minor price fighting on a per category basis. Intel's mid vs AMD's mid, etc. There's no drive down to the bottom with a duopoly.

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