AMD dons Santa's cap to refire Phenom
THE MARKETING and PR Elves at AMD have been toiling all month long to repair the damage caused by the Phenom misfire. They’ve come up with a novel way to make up for the bug-infested performance reviewers and consumers alike have noted: they’ve gone 2-for-1 (not in the stock exchange!).
Yes, according to german site Planet3DNow.de, in a move that shocks no-one, the AMD channel has spamazed customers with an email stating that they will be able to purchase from them Phenom CPUs at the cost of current dual-core CPUs. Black Edition 9500, 9600 and 9700(?) will also become available. The feeding frenzy starts effective today, let’s just hope resellers pass on the savings to the consumers.
On the other hand, look at the positive side of things. If you still haven’t become a true believer in the Phenom, but were waiting for the X2’s to come down, now’s the time. Planet3DNow suggests the X2 6400 can be had for around 120 eurobucks.
Ahhh. Nothing like a major price cut a month after launch to make early bird consumers feel like downright twits.
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Once again, twice in two years, AMD has crashed market for good reason, without any TOP Ender to cement position from.

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Too bad they didn't do it at launch. The launch prices were a joke given the performance compared to Core 2 and the TLB bug.
This is like the 5th comment I've read belonging to "Physician Thomas Swewart von Drashek M.D" (or was it Ph.D? You'd think he could remember such a thing)

It's just a bloody spam bot. Don't you proof-read these things? It's just a sentence loosely connected to the article followed by lots of Vista Ultimate nonsense. 

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Does anyone else find it amusing that a company cuts prices on a product that they CLAIM has strong demand, hasn't really been released in any significant volume and is supposed to be the flagship product and better than competition?

Seems to me cutting prices speaks to the demand and the performance - perhaps even more clearly than AMD's 'claims'....

But hey, it's just sound business sense that you cut prices on something experiencing 'strong demand' and AMD has demonstrated nothing, if not a strong business sense. Come to think of it they've demonstrated nothing recently....
After having checked AMD's website today (the 18th, after the supposed price drop) there was nothing to be seen nor heard of a price drop or release of 9600 BE. 

Shame that. =\

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_609,00.html?redir=CPT301%3fredir=SPDR0010
dont know why amd never slapped together 2 64bit processors on the one die thay have that ht link. it would have saved a lot of time