Take two processor companies, one of which being the market leader, and have them fight until the smaller one starts to grab market share from the larger one. Moreover, leave them in the ring until the largest PC manufacturer begins to adopt the smaller company's solutions after years of using only Intel's solutions… I meant the solutions of the market leader. The natural question is what will Intel, I mean the largest processor producer, do?


Well, it's rather simple. Because it has the power, Intel will drop the prices so much it will almost be like giving them away for free.

Bloomberg has found out from a couple of mobo producers that Intel intend to reduce the prices by as much as 60 percent to recover some of the market share lost to AMD.

"They're very aggressive about getting market share back. We're all surprised,'' Max Tsai, product manager at Gigabyte, told Bloomberg.

It seems that Intel is planning to cut dual-core CPU prices by approximately 15 percent, and the Pentium prices by 60 percent.

Intel recently launched its latest chipset series, the formerly codenamed Broadwater, now called Intel 965 Express chipset, developed especially for platforms which feature the manufacturer's famous Intel Core 2 Duo processors, as it can support high-speed PC2-6400 (800MHz) DDR2 memory. It seems that Intel's 965 chipset series will represent the perfect alternative for all systems featuring the already famous Intel 2 Duo processors and the Intel vPro technology or Intel Viiv technology supporting platforms.