By: anon.1 (abc.delete@this.def.com), August 10, 2019 9:40 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
anon (spam.delete.delete@this.this.spam.com) on August 10, 2019 8:20 am wrote:
> me (me.delete@this.me.com) on August 10, 2019 7:36 am wrote:
> > Intel's Xeon prices are so fake it hurts. Typical customers are paying at least half of list, and
> > likely much more than that now. I wouldn't be surprised if Intel starts doing 2for1 deals too.
>
> Even half price is an insult when starting from quadruple the price per core. And that's assuming those
> customer would pay 100% of the AMD list price. The really big customers get custom SKUs at reasonable
> prices already, but for the rest not budging on the prices this year is basically a slap in the face,
> especially if they're just doing it to wait out EPYC2 evaluations and drop the prices next year.
Intel never drops list prices. They provide large rebates to the likes of HP, etc. STH had an article on this during the Naples era: https://www.servethehome.com/intel-is-serving-major-xeon-discounts-to-combat-amd-epyc/ And so it goes... They can't do what they did during the K8 era, but rebates through backchannels are not illegal.
> me (me.delete@this.me.com) on August 10, 2019 7:36 am wrote:
> > Intel's Xeon prices are so fake it hurts. Typical customers are paying at least half of list, and
> > likely much more than that now. I wouldn't be surprised if Intel starts doing 2for1 deals too.
>
> Even half price is an insult when starting from quadruple the price per core. And that's assuming those
> customer would pay 100% of the AMD list price. The really big customers get custom SKUs at reasonable
> prices already, but for the rest not budging on the prices this year is basically a slap in the face,
> especially if they're just doing it to wait out EPYC2 evaluations and drop the prices next year.
Intel never drops list prices. They provide large rebates to the likes of HP, etc. STH had an article on this during the Naples era: https://www.servethehome.com/intel-is-serving-major-xeon-discounts-to-combat-amd-epyc/ And so it goes... They can't do what they did during the K8 era, but rebates through backchannels are not illegal.