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Intel updated its Price list this past Sunday. All prices are for 1,000 unit trays purchased directly from Intel. The new list shows a 50% decrease in Intel’s Q6700 quad-core (2.6 GHz, 8MB cache, 1,066 MHz FSB) from $530 as of April 2, to only $266 now. This would allow the system makers out there to put this slightly higher-end quad-core into the same systems the Q6600 quad-core (2.4 GHz, same) was going previously, which is believed to be the sub-$1,000 markets. The Q6600 price also dropped 16% to $224, down from $266, possibly pushing it either close or into the sub-$800 markets.

Intel is definitely moving quad-core into lower-end mainstream. A 2.4 or 2.6 GHz processor with 8MB cache and in excess of a 1 GHz FSB seems almost unreal if you happened to blink over the past couple of years. Still, here it is in all of its Core 2 prowess.

Intel also lowered the price on the following desktop chips, while everything else remained unchanged. Core 2 Duo E6850, drops 31% from $266 to $183. Core 2 Duo E4600 drops 15% from $133 to $113. Pentium Desktop Dual-cores E2200 and E2180 drop 12% and 14% respectively, from $84 and $74 to $74 and $64. Celeron Dual-Core E1200 drops 19% from $53 to $43. Celeron 440 and 430 drop 17% and 23% respectively, from $53 and $44 to $44 and $34. Celeron 560 and 550 drop 20% each, from $134 and $107 to $107 and $86.

The server side saw some nice impressive cuts, along with pricing alignment as older parts are phased out. Quad-core Xeon X3230 saw a 50% decrease from $530 to $266. The Quad-core Xeon X3220 saw a 16% decrease from $266 to $224. Dual-Core Xeon 3085 saw a 29% decrease, from $266 to $188.

Intel releases processor pricing updates fairly regularly. The last one was on April 2, 2008. This one was on April 20, 2008. The next one should come mid-late May. Visit Intel’s INTC stock symbol site for more information about Intel’s processors.

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