Even Intel official representatives do no hide, that the announcement of Bloomfield processors will takes place in the middle of November. However, as we already explained, by Sunday evening three Bloomfield processors and Intel x58 chipset will be presented in USA.
The nearest changes in Intel Price- list are planned for this Sunday, on 19 October. Prices of the following processors models will be lowered:
- Core 2 Quad q8200 (2.33 GHz): $224 - > $193;
- Core 2 Quad q6600 (2.4 GHz): $193 - > $183;
- Core 2 Duo e7300 (2.66 GHz): $133 - > $113;
- Pentium e2220 (2.4 GHz): $84 - > $74;
- Pentium e2200 (2.2 GHz): $74 - > $64.
Simultaneously Intel will present the 45 nm dual core processor core 2 Duo e7400 (2.8 GHz) with 1066 MHz bus and 3 MB cache in the second level, whose wholesale price will be equal to $133. The following important date will become 16 November - In this date Intel will release three Bloomfield processors LGA 1366:
- Core i 7-965 Extreme edition (3.2 GHz) - > $999;
- Core i 7-940 (2.93 GHz) - > $562;
- Core i 7-920 (2.66 GHz) - > $284.
The following announcement of new LGA 775 processors is 30 November:
- Core 2 Quad q8300 (2.5 GHz) - > $224;
- Core 2 Duo e5300 (2.6 GHz) - > $86;
- Celeron e1500 (2.2 GHz) - > $53.
Sequential reduction in the processors prices generation penryn is planned on 18 January, 2009:
- Core 2 Duo e7500 (2.93 GHz) - > $133 (new);
- Core 2 Duo e7400 (2.8 GHz): $133 - > $113;
- Core 2 Duo e5200 (2.5 GHz): $84 - > $76;
- Pentium e2220 (2.4 GHz): $74 - > $64;
- Celeron e1400 (2.0 GHz): $53 - > $43.