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Originally Posted by great_big_abyss It will mostly be bought by system builders who can then advertise an 8-core chip at 5Ghz...people love that sort of thing.
And, on the retail side, there are a LOT of people with more money than brains, who probably have the disposable income to splurge on a '5 Ghz' chip like this. And I say '5 Ghz' loosely, seeing as that is only the TurboCore speed. |
The people who buy $900 CPUs are also the people who haven't been buying AMD for many years. Without reviews that say this is superior to intel, I don't think they sell many.
intel doesn't have any 4Ghz cpus either- do you see FX8350s being sold to enthusiasts with more money than brains? (not to mention intel doesn't have any 8 core CPUs)
AMD had 16% of the cpu market last I saw, and in Q1 2013 got pushed to 4th place in the microprocessor market by Qualcomm and Samsung.
People aren't buying 4GHz Visheras, they won't buy 5GHz Visheras either. The word is pretty out that intel processors are faster at lower clock speeds and core counts, and use less power/give off less heat.
The only way this sells is at $350- $400 IMHO, and even there it has an uphill battle.