Sources at motherboard vendors tell that by Q1 2009, the Core 2 Extreme QX9770 and QX9650 discontinue, with PDNs being issued. They will be totally phased-out by Q2. The company will also send out PDNs for four quad-core CPUs including the Core 2 Quad Q9450, ten dual-core CPUs including the Core 2 Duo E8300, three Pentium CPUs including the Pentium E2220 and the Celeron E1200 starting in November, and all products will phase out between the first and second quarters next year. Other highlights include:

On October 19, Core 2 Quad Q8200, Q6600, Core 2 Duo E7300, and Pentium E2220 and E2200 will face price-cuts.
On the same day, Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 launches, priced at US$133 (in 1000 unit tray quantities).
On November 30, Intel will launch Core 2 Quad Q8300 (2.50 GHz, 2+2 MB L2 cache, priced at $224), Pentium E5300 (2.60 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, priced at $86) and Celeron E1500 (2.20 GHz, 512 KB L2, priced at $53)
January 18, 2009 will see the launch of Core 2 Duo E7500 (2.93 GHz, priced at $133 to replace E7400).
On the same day, Q8200 gets price cuts from $193 to $183,Pentium E5200 from $84 to $76, Pentium E2220 from $84 to $64 and Celeron E1400 from $54 to $43.
Another important bit is that Core i7 series processors and X58 based motherboards would launch officially in November. The CPU lineup is expected to expand in 2009.

THANKS TO 8tvt


Intel to Cut Prices on Existing CPUs and Introduce New Parts in Q3
Two things that drive the CPU world are price and performance. Depending on the needs of the consumer one or the other of these two factors is the main driver behind what processor is purchased. For many AMD CPUs the only place they compete currently in on price and Intel is starting to whittle away at the price difference.

Recent roadmaps reveal the company has another cut coming in Q3 2008. Simultaneously, Intel will release new quad-core and dual-core processors. This includes the 3.0 GHz Core 2 Quad Q9650 with a price of $530 in 1000 unit trays. The current Core 2 Quad Q9550 will get a significant price cut from its current $530 to $316.

A few of the older Intel CPUs will be phased out including the Core 2 Quad 9450. The 9450 will be replaced with the Core 2 Quad running at 2.66GHz at $266. Other quad-core processors being phased out include the Q9300 and Q6700 leaving the Q6600 as the only 65nm Intel CPU on the market selling for $203.

Intel will also make some changes in its dual-core lineup. The company will announce its Core 2 Duo E8600 3.33 GHz processor for $266, and discontinue the Core 2 Duo E8300. The E8500 and E8400 dual-core parts will drop to $183 and $163 respectively. A new entry-level Core 2 Duo part will debut called the E7300 running 2.66GHz for $133. The existing E7200 will get a price reduction to $113.
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QX9650 vs QX6850
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Intel Desktop CPUs Price Cut Schedule
This is a preliminary list of Intel's processor price cut schedule for year 2008.Thx to komag


QX9650 reail box set.....wow...huge


This post has been edited by jetkiat: Sep 19 2008, 05:25 PM

holy crap! i want it! just only get my Q6600 then new penryn comes out.

q9450 baby

is cheap!!!!!!

So ur Q6600 still can tahan for half year mah....


Yah...i also looking for it...cheapest quad and 12mb L2...

yea...time for some ddr3 baby!!!!

3.16GHz....

333x9.5x multiplier

well,looks like intel go to AMD .5x multiplier style.

btw,cant afford the price

thats cool man! phenom competers will wake soon..

i think phenom cant smell the smoke....

walau... the amount of L2 cache and the price makes it really bang for bucks... but we wont know whether it will better than AMD's up and coming new processors YET

by the tread of now,i can say it WILL be better than AMD

now is Intel era already, amd has become history... sad to say so

ya lo,once AMD announced 65nm quad,intel go to 45nm already,and once amd announced 45nm that time,intel got Octa-Core liao.

WALAO!!!!! Very attractive wei!!!

The price also belly attractive.

whats your source of the prices u posted???

oh ya wor....any prove?

Supposedly USD right? Whoever's bulking the Yorkfield (Quad), pls inform me!!!

nono...im asking him where he got the pricelist from....

The price should be in USD.

Those prices are known yesterday actually.

http://sg.vr-zone.com/articles/Intel_45nm_...ealed/5283.html

Also price announced for E2XXX series.

http://sg.vr-zone.com/articles/Pentium_Dua...c_2nd/5289.html

And Mobile Penryn.

http://sg.vr-zone.com/articles/Mobile_Penr...eiled/5290.html

C2D uLV & Celeron.

http://sg.vr-zone.com/articles/C2D_uLV_U77..._30th/5292.html