Note that all stores in the EU selling to consumers are required by law to include the value added tax in prices. (This is the “inkl. MwSt.” under the price on the above site.)
German VAT standard rate is 19%, so without tax the price becomes 1509 / 1.19 = 1268 €.
With a 1.10654 USD/EUR exchange rate (offered by my bank at the time of the writing), it’s equivalent to $1403.
Or for 0.84149 GBP/EUR it becomes £1067 (tax-free). Add the UK standard rate VAT of 20% and you get 1067 * 1.20 = £1280.
Yup, i predicted TR2 at 1500 ish USD as well, as it is essentially 4x ryzen 2700x dies with some glue logic, minus the shipping, marketing, logistics, etc. of 4 processors in the supply chain.
Not even sure intel CAN do a massive price drop. Well, i mean they could cut out their margin on the 28 core (which at a guess would be $4-5k off a $10-13k CPU), but i still don’t think they can get down to AMD pricing (even retail) without selling them at a loss.
They tend to order first and the most. So intel charging them $10000 for a cpu and turning around and selling it to the consumers for $5000. It looks bad and is a quick way to make enemies
Intel has set the bar…Promises were made. Outh’s in the ancient language.
To come out and say well $10k 28 core CPUs were stupid…AMD does 32 cores ones at $6666k.
Consumer market AMD does 32 core CPU’s for $3666. Is kind of embarrassing.
How about we do a consumer 22 core at 5GHz no LOLz …4Ghz and the 22 core chips you pay x3 for …wELL fuck AMD…wE HAVE 10nm to bitch slap your 7nm and planned 7nm+.
Cry me a river. Intel has market share on servers and massive production to feed that server beast. AMD are better hardware and software exploit wise but cant do Intel Volumes. Because FAB’s
Intel are fucked but in control because they can do the volume only. There tech is dead…Dead in the water.
Companies will wait till next year for the intel 10nm Miracle.
It is not coming and AMD will continue to steam roll them without capacity to fulfil server demand.
AMD can only grow so fast fab wise. Every cloud idiot wants cloud servers and AMD is the only choice. Unless you want CPU flaws and 10nm issues.
2c
P.S Im drunk and promise not to edit this cause people whine.
3D-Xpoint (optane) took a long path of failures and delays and to this day, their density sucks (compared to 3D-VNAND), or they overprovision to the moon because it is not reliable.