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Doug, Re: You must've missed Intel slashing prices on its now-obsolete 32bit Xeon MP processors to below $1000 for the first time ever.

Well you obviously missed it when AMD slashed the prices of their 800 series Opteron chips by as much as 52.7%.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/17/amd_halves_opteron_848_prices/

Meanwhile, Intel seems to be reducing the price of a much older sku, rather than any of their high end offerings.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20040405092535.html

This looks like a move to reach lower 4P price points with a low end offering, which is much different than AMD's hack 'n slash.