AMD Slashes Prices, Adds New Athlon IIs

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To see the full list of changes in AMD's lineup, please refer to the page linked at the the bottom of this news entry.

Well, it had to happen sooner or later. Quietly last night, AMD went ahead and slashed prices on existing Phenom II and Athlon II processors, discontinuing a handful of chips in the process. In addition, the company publicly introduced a handful of new Athlon II CPUs, including low-power and triple-core models.

The company's official price list still says "Effective September 16," but it's changed quite a bit since then.

That's right—no more Phenom II X4 810, Phenom II X3 720, or Phenom II X2 550. No more Socket AM2+ Phenom IIs. No more processors priced higher than $200, either—you can credit the arrival of Intel's Core i5 and i7-800 processors for that. That said, we grabbed the "old" prices in the table above from Google's cache of the price list, but actual e-tail prices were already a little bit lower before this latest round of cuts.

What about those new Athlon IIs?

The low-power "e" chips might not be too terribly exciting, but the Athlon II X3 435 and 425 are a different story: they have three cores, relatively high clock speeds, and price tags well under $100. Heck, the slowest one is only $7 more than AMD's fastest dual-core Athlon II.

Source: The Tech Report