The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons

Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by temac on Friday September 01, 2017 @07:51PM (#15153229)

I don't completely understand the "need" for bribery. Could they just not lower their prices? (which could have resulted in the same balance in the end)

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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by dboreham on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:18PM (#15153598)

I think you're confused about "couldn't match their volume". Parent means (I think) that AMD couldn't _sell_ enough units. Not that they couldn't _make_ enough units (which is I think your interpretation).

They couldn't sell enough because someone was paying their customers not to buy their (superior) product.

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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday September 01, 2017 @10:50PM (#15153946)

I think temac was suggesting Intel could sell cheaper chips. Why would Intel need to bribe the competition?

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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by ddingus on Friday September 01, 2017 @11:16PM (#15154031)

To maintain product pricing and value perception.

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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by TheDongIsYou on Saturday September 02, 2017 @09:07AM (#15155781)

And to block competitors from selling out their own products (AMD in that case).

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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by ddingus on Saturday September 02, 2017 @01:43PM (#15157263)

Yes

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