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01/15/04 3:15 PM

#23353 RE: dougSF30 #23345

Which is exactly what is happening to Intel's server products, both Xeon and Itanium-based. Intel is desperate to hold back Opteron adoption, and its sales folks have been told not to lose deals based on price... they are willing to give processors away, even, to hold on to larger deals.

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20040114corp_a.htm?iid=HPAGE+low_news_040114a&

What part of

"The average selling price was slightly higher primarily due to a richer mix within server processors."

don't you understand?