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yesiree, 10980XE will be half the price of 9980XE
No doubt due to competition from AMD.
Although I heard elsewhere that Intel didn't sell that many of the
998OXE, as not enough dies had full 18 cores working. Charge $2000
and that would dampen demand to what they could supply.
So have Intel got better yields for the 'new' generation (still 14 nm)?

Call me when it hits $25.

This gives some background on the generation from last year.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13402...core-i9-9980xe

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The most expensive processors in the list, the price on those
is negotiable. And the day Spectre/Meltdown came out, you can
be sure the spot price dropped like a rock. Nobody ever pays
$13000 for the $13000 processor (only a "consumer" does that).

https://s21.q4cdn.com/600692695/file...Price_List.pdf

The cheapest processor now is $42 for a dual, whereas
there was a quad in the list for $17 at one time (BGA
for $100 tablets). But AMD, right now, isn't going to
"race them to the bottom".

The only time Intel isn't going to make a profit, is
if they can't keep the fab running at 100% capacity.

And Intel keeps hedging their bets. They bought an FPGA
company (so they could make the $1000 chips in their fab).
And they're going to make video cards - whether this
will work, we'll have to wait and see.

Paul