It appears that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has cut the prices of its previously released processor line-ups in the same day in which Intel has launched its latest Core 2 Duo, also slashing costs for its ‘old’ products.

It is the first time in quite a long period that AMD decides to cut prices, even for its top of the line Athlon 64 FX-62 chip by 20% to $827, without rolling out a new series of products that would replace the other and compete with Intel’s high-end CPUs.

The manufacturer also slashed the prices for its entry-level products, including Sempron and mobile Turion 64 and Mobile Sempron processors.

“The world’s second largest supplier of x86 microprocessors has lowered the pricing of its single-core Athlon 64 and dual-core Athlon 64 X2 by up to 61%. As a result of the price change, AMD Athlon 64 3800+ and 3500+ now cost $112 and $91, respectively, down from $290 and $189. The dual-core chips prices are now roughly 50% lower than previously, which means that users can get Athlon 64 X2 3800+ for $152 and Athlon 64 X2 5000+ for $301, while earlier the lowest-speed dual-core chips from AMD was priced at $303,” reports X-bit Labs.

The challenger – Intel has also reduced the purchase costs for its line-ups, including on the list the LGA-775 Intel Pentium Extreme Edition (965 and 955), Pentium D (840 and 830), Pentium 4 (670, 660, 650, 641, 571, 561, 551, 521) and the MPGA-478 Celeron D (335, 330). The chip giant announced that the Intel fans will be able to buy at a lower price also its novel Pentium D 805 and 945 and the Pentium 4 524 models.

Neither did Celeron escape the price cut, as almost all the processors are featured on ‘the black list’ such as the LGA-775 Celeron D 326 (256k L2 cache, 2.53GHz, 533MHz FSB, 90nm) and MPGA-478 Celeron 315 (256k L2 cache, 2.26GHz, 533MHz FSB, 90nm).