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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

Then you should check the latest rumors about Intel's next CPUs: faster, with more cores and cheaper... don't forget your salt.

Oneeee-Chan!!! posted a link to it: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9033086

The Enthusiast circles are calling it fake on that slide. - There is allot wrong with it.

Well, pretty much everyone who took a closer look did, especially in the US. Putting the $ behind the number is something no American would ever do even if they tried (due to muscle memory), for instance.

Also, if that were true, then Intel would loose a ton of market share, as it would push the ASP (Average Sales Price), and thus the all-important (for shareholders, at least) profit margin way down. Just go sites like seeking alpha to see how they reacted to these slides. They were hoping it not to be true because they were NOT happy.

Interestingly, this also puts Intel into a very difficult position. AMD is on par right now at same clock speeds, bit faster in applications, but still a bit slower in games due to slower caches. If AMD were to clearly surpass Intel in IPC across the board, they would have no option than to drop the prices radically to keep selling - but their shareholders wouldn't allow for this and sell Intel share en masse if they would drop the prices like that.