June 9th, 2006
The Gloves are Off
Customers of Intel Corp. said the world’s biggest computer-chip maker plans to reduce prices on Pentium processors by as much as 60 percent to reclaim market share from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Executives at Micro-Star International Co. and Gigabyte Technology Co., two of Taiwan’s biggest makers of circuit boards for computers, said Intel officials told them the price cuts will start July 23. Tom Beermann, a spokesman for Santa Clara, California-based Intel, declined to comment.
This has been brewing for a while.
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