Intel To Sell Atom For Less Than $29?

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DigiTimes, citing unnamed sources, is claiming that Intel has plans to launch its Atom processor at a price below $29.

In order to prevent AMD grabbing low-cost desktop PC market share with its Sempron processors, Intel is planning to bring its entry-level desktop Atom 230 processor down to a price below US$29 in thousand-unit tray quantities, according to sources at motherboard makers.
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Not a bad markup since estimates are that they only cost about $5 each to manufacture. There are around 2500 candidates per wafer.
 
What I don't understand is why don't they just slash their celeron line to this pricing range? Actually, if they made some older Core processors, they might also get the price that low.
 
I heard they were dropping these in the new revision of the EEE. Slightly less power per clock cycle compared to the Dothan Celeron M, but had hyper-threading. Would be slightly slower than at 1.6ghz than a 900mhz Celeron M (only benchmark I saw was a SuperPi). Probably less power consumption than Celeron.
 
Ockie said:
What I don't understand is why don't they just slash their celeron line to this pricing range? Actually, if they made some older Core processors, they might also get the price that low.
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Because Intel gets much more for a ULV Celeron M, and cheaper Celerons are not appropriate for MIDs. Battery life would be horrible if a manufacturer tried to shoehorn a 20W processor instead of a 1-2.5W into a small portable device at that price range.

For desktop based Atom computers, Intel could slash older prices to $29, but the cost to manufacture those (Prescott|Cedar Mill|Core) chips is a lot more than what it costs to manufacture Atom.
 
pxc said:
Not a bad markup since estimates are that they only cost about $5 each to manufacture. There are around 2500 candidates per wafer.
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Ockie said:
What I don't understand is why don't they just slash their celeron line to this pricing range? Actually, if they made some older Core processors, they might also get the price that low.
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It is cheaper to make the atoms. Understand?
 
On the other hand the EVE processor costs $5500 plus train fair back from Washington DC.. :)
 
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