Yesterday we had annonced, that processor Athlon 64 X2 3600 + Socket 939 OEM-systems will show up in the retail market only in the fourth quarter of this year, It will be placed in Socket AM2
Taiwan motherboard manufacturers said that the price of processor Athlon 64 X2 3600 + will lay within the limits of $139 up to $160. We notice, that in the end of July cost of more senior processor Athlon 64 X2 3800 + will decrease up to $169 that is why cost of Athlon 64 X2 3600 + will come nearer to $130. As their competing processors Pentium D 9x5 will take the price position of "$133".
AMD does not hide, that the definition of the Athlon 64 X2 3600 + price will be guided by Intel. price strategy. we already know, that in this year cost of younger model from Athlon 64 X2 will come nearer to $110. This processor can quite become Athlon 64 X2 3600 +, 2.0 GHz working frequency and equipped with 2 Гµ 256 KB cache.
The Taiwan colleagues has also informed, that processor Duo E4200 (1.6 GHz) witch is the cheapest dual Conroe core , will be much cheaper than Core 2 Duo E6300 which price is equal to $183. Most likely, Core 2 Duo E4200 will cost approximately $145-163