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03/28/2008, 3:30pm, EDT

Friday, March 28th

Intel Atom costs just $6, serves as cash cow?

Intel's already inexpensive Atom processor could cost just a fraction of its actual price to build, information sent to TG Daily reveals. While official pricing leaked online suggested that the price to computer makers would cost a still-low $29 for a basic 1.6GHz model, the actual cost to make and ship a given processor is said by a purportedly reliable source to be just $6, or a fifth of the actual price. The cost is said to exclude the actual mainboard chipset and doesn't include higher-end models, such as the 1.87GHz dual-core version.

The difference between the price for Intel and the retail price for end users is also reported to be high enough that the semiconductor company would make as much as ten times its manufacturing costs on every chip sold. Intel has not commented on the claims, though the cost difference may suggest higher prices than necessary for the devices which will use Atom, which will include the Eee PC 900 and Apple's rumored ultra-mobile devices.


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220819 03/28, 3:41pm, EDT Not including...
reasearch and development costs, of course.

posted by greenG4

220822 03/28, 3:55pm, EDT $12.37
Is what the basic chemistry of the author of this article is worth, proving the they are vastly overpaid.

posted by ClevelandAdv

220823 03/28, 3:59pm, EDT Anti-profit?
Who is hurt by Intel becoming more efficient with their manufacturing. Intel is a public company. They can decide their pricing, how to profit and where to use their profits for their execs, shareholders, customers, R&D, all to everyone's benefit who is either invested in them or uses their products.

posted by JackWebb

220831 03/28, 5:08pm, EDT wow
That's an incredible cost/performance ratio. For 600$ they could put 1000 processors into a machine. That's a level of processing power that hasn't been seen yet at a fraction of the cost. Holy crap!

H O L Y C R A P !!!

posted by zaghahzag

220832 03/28, 5:09pm, EDT oops
I meant for 6000$ -> 1000 processors.

posted by zaghahzag

220904 03/31, 9:52am, EDT re: oops
I think you meant $6000 -> 1000 processors. :p

posted by koolkid1976

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