Intel Slashing Prices on Xeon Quad Core (Clovertown) Processors
The Kentsfield Xeon X3210 and X3220 will have their prices cut to US$224 and US$266 respectively, while prices for the Clovertown Xeon E5310, E5320, E5335, E5345, and X5355 will go down to US$209, US$256, US$316, US$455, and US$744 respectively, the sources said.
The motivation for the price cuts is to ramp up shipments and to counter competition from AMDs future server processors.
Absent from the list is the Clovertown Xeon X5365 (3.0GHz) chip which is currently used in Apple's 8-Core Mac Pro. The Xeon X5365, however, may not have made the list simply because it is still not generally available to the public. Apple was one of the early customers for the Quad-core 3.0GHz Xeon, and so it's unclear if the upcoming price cuts will have any effect on the price Apple is presently paying Intel for their 3.0GHz Clovertown Xeon processors.
Regardless, it's unlikely any price cut Apple would get would necessarily be passed on to 8-Core Mac Pro customers until the next Mac Pro hardware revision from Apple.
In the meanwhile, cheaper prices on the Quad-Core processors could interest motivated Mac Pro owners interested in swapping out their existing Dual-Core processors for Quad-Core replacements. It was demonstrated in September 2006 that existing Mac Pro designs could accommodate Woodcrest (Dual Core) to Clovertown (Quad Core) upgrades.
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Don't expect much until after iPhone launch!
Thanks :)
Absent from the list is the Xeon X5365 (3.0GHz) chip which is currently used in Apple's 8-Core Mac Pro. The Xeon X5365, however, may not have made the list simply because it is still not generally available to the public.
The X5365 probably wasn't on the list because it isn't having a price cut. It'll be released to the public at the same time as these new prices come in to effect, for $1172. "Late July" is expected to be the 22nd.
Rokem: plenty of sites have them, do a google product search for the codes or something.
Ok i was just wondering..... Say Apple were to switch to AMD cpu's.... What would that entail??? Would they have to redo OS X again like they did for Intel chips??? I'm just curious... how huge of a project would that be? Would it entail everything the Intel switch did? Can anyone in here please give me some insight?
Thanks :)
It won't happen, but people do run hacked copies of OSX on AMD systems already.
I doubt we will see price cuts... Apple may bump the bottom spec, but they will not lower the price.
I have to agree. Apple's philosphy seems to be based on keeping prices stable, and changing the technology around a particular price-point. This means that when new technology is released, Apple might have very thin margins, but as technology ages (within the average 6-8 month update range), Apple's margins increase. Perhaps that's why profit margins were at a record high last quarter, most of the hardware had not been updated for a reasonable amount of time.
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