Sandy Bridge price cuts coming in September?

Intel reportedly plans to drop prices on select Sandy Bridge processors in September and again in October. Intel plans to launch 7 new processors soon.

By Wong Chung Wee - 19 Aug 2011

Intel reportedly plans to drop prices on select Sandy Bridge processors in September and again in October. The first round of price drops will affect all mid- and low-power Core i7 and Core i5 CPUs.

The second round of price cuts will follow in October and this time, prices on several Core i3 and Pentium microprocessors will be slashed.

Model	Cores / Threads / Frequency	L3 cache	Old price	New price (Sept)	New price (Oct)
Core i3-2120	2 / 4 / 3.3GHz	3 MB	$138		$117
Core i5-2390T	2 / 4 / 2.7GHz	3 MB	$195	$184
Core i5-2400S	4 / 4 / 2.5GHz	6 MB	$195	$184
Core i5-2405S	4 / 4 / 2.5GHz	6 MB	$205	$201
Core i5-2500S	4 / 4 / 2.7GHz	6 MB	$216	$205
Core i5-2500T	4 / 4 / 2.3GHz	6 MB	$216	$205
Core i7-2600S	4 / 8 / 2.8GHz	8 MB	$306	$294
Pentium G630	2 / 2 / 2.7GHz	3 MB	$75		$64
Pentium G850	2 / 2 / 2.9GHz	3 MB	$86		$75

(Source: CPU World)

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Sandy Bridge price cuts coming in September?

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