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Deneb to be priced in sub $300-400 segment

by on23 September 2008

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Won't compete with Nehalem

We learned
that AMD won't go after Nehalem with its 45nm promised land called Deneb. Deneb in DDR2 variation and 45nm process with decent clock won't even try to compete with the Core i7 Nehalem generation.

Our sources are confident that Deneb at 3.0GHz and even 2.8GHz should be enough to compete with the Core i7 920 (Bloomfield) that is clocked at 2.66GHz. Clock to clock AMD doesn’t stand any chance as according to all of the news we've gathered so far, Deneb can compete with Yorkfield on the same clock, i.e. the Core 2 Quad generation of CPUs, but not with Core i7.


The good news is that this might indicate that all Deneb cores will cost close to $300-400, if not less including the fastest clocked one. The Core i7 940 at 2.93GHz will sell for $562 and as you can imagine AMD’s 3.0GHz Deneb has to be priced lower than that as it will end up slower.

Deneb is still in dreamland and with a lot of luck, we might actually see some CPUs in November or December. The good news for AMD is that most of the CPU market is in the sub $300 range and this is where AMD has a chance to make some money with its new 45nm parts.

Last modified on 24 September 2008
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