Replies to post #52417 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[Wouter Tinus]

Oh okay, so I had the X and E reversed for the 5472 parts. Makes more sense this way, release the 120W version first, the 80W later.

[alan81]

How new products stack up...
OK, here is what we actually got... added in Barcelona for comparison as well...

 
 Current               New XEONs              Barcelona 
 model # speed  price  price  speed model #  Price  speed  Model # 
                        $1279 3.2   X5482 
 5365    3.0     $1172  $1172 3.16  X5460 
                        $1022 3.0   5472 
                        $915  3.0   5450 
                        $851  3.0   X5450 
                        $797  2.8   5462 
 5355    2.66    $744 
                        $690  2.83  5440 
 5345    2.33    $455   $455  2.66 5430 
                                              $389  2.0     2350 
                                              $377  1.9     2347HE 
 5335    2.00    $316   $316  2.50  5420      $316  1.9     2347 
 5320    1.86    $256   $256  2.33  5410      $255  1.8     2346HE 
 5310    1.60    $209   $209  2.00  5405      $209  1.7     2344HE

It doesn't look good for Barcelona pricing to me...If we look at the $316 price point, we see Barcelona at 1.9Ghz competiting against a 2.00Ghz Clovertown from Intel... but Intel just moved that price point to a 2.5Ghz Harpertown. By using half speed multipliers, Intel has flattened their price/performance curve, and pretty much put everything on top of what AMD has to offer.
--Alan