AMD, or Advanced Micro Devices, dropped prices on their microprocessor chips again today. For those of you who don't know the name, AMD is the worlds second largest producer of CPUs, or Central Processing Units. They are now also the worlds second largest producer of GPUs, or Graphics Processing Units, after their aquisition of ATI at the end of 2006. ATI also produces the graphics processors for the Xbox-360 and Nintendo Wii, along with processors for devices like cell phones and HD TVs.
Some of the cuts on AMDs mainstream Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors were as large as 48%. You can now purchase a dual-core AMD CPU for a mere $73!! Those of you looking to build a budget desktop system with an AMD CPU, now would be a good time.
You can read the full story (here) at Extremetech and (here) at TG Daily.
April 9, 2007
AMD cuts CPU prices again
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