It was INTEL, then VIA and then rumor had it AMD. Samsung might not switch to AMD or VIA for that matter. The only main reason being the price of Intel. Now Bloomberg reports that intel is lowering its price up to 60% (bet this is lower than anything AMD or VIA can offer) and up to 15% on its new Core Duo processors to keep its Market Share.
It was only this week we heard about Samsung’s chances of moving to AMD…
Intel said it will reduce prices of faster dual-core chips by about 15 percent, according to Alex Lin, a product marketing manager at Micro-Star, Taiwan’s third-largest maker of motherboards, which connect electronic parts in computers. Intel also told him that it plans to lower Pentium prices by 60 percent [...]
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