By Michael Hatamoto, BetaNews Putting even more pressure on rival AMD, which is already struggling and replaced its CEO, Intel over the weekend cut some

By Sharon Gaudin July 21, 2008 - Intel Corp. yesterday announced that it has dropped the price of seven processors by up to 31%.
There were three price cuts in Intel's Core 2 Duo chip family. The 3.16-GHz Core 2 Duo E8500 was reduced from $266 to $183 as of July 20. That 31% drop greatly outpaced all the other cuts, which ranged from 11% to 15%, according to an Intel price list.
out new designs. Then they've got to look at their older stuff. The new stuff is faster and better, so you have to cut prices on the old stuff to keep it moving."

Intel has announced some price cuts on a bunch of popular processors. The largest of price cuts come close to 33% percent.
The great overclocker, the E8500 (3.16) was cut from $266 to $183. The more inexpensive (and also great for overclocked) E7200 (2.53 GHz) gets a %15 price reduction, going from $133 to $113. The E8400 goes from $183 to $163, and the E3110 (3GHz) got a similar price cut, now selling for $167 instead of $183.

By Cade Metz in San Francisco → More by this author A week after trumpeting a healthy second quarter profit leap, Intel has slashed the prices of several

By Aharon Etengoff: Monday, 21 July 2008, 4:42 PM CHIP MAKING GIANT Intel has slashed processor prices by up to 31 per cent.

Intel has launched the latest Centrino processors for laptops, powered by five Intel Core 2 Duo processors. It has also introduced the highest performing dual core mobile processor â Core 2 Extreme â running at 3.06GHz.
Intel said it also plans to unveil a further eight processors in the near future, including the first quad core devices for mobile applications.

There was never any chance that Intel would ease up on the pressure following AMD’s announcement of another big quarterly loss and Intel’s most recent round of desktop CPU price cuts confirms that.
The chip giant’s latest price list doesn’t show too many price cuts, but those it has cut make its desktop offering even more competitive.
el axes some desktop CPU prices

Intel announced prices for some of its latest, most powerful chips that might disappoint digital gaming enthusiasts because they're more expensive than reports had speculated.
The latest Intel processors for gamers, the Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core processors for desktop PCs that run at 3.2GHz will cost US$1,499 each in lots of 1000 processors, with a slightly different version for $1,399. Another version of the chip that runs at 3.0GHz will cost $999 in the same amounts, according to Intel's latest price list.
ated July 15, is the lack of price declines on desktop PC processors. The list actually shows no price declines on any processors, but it in desktop PC microprocessors,