CPU record sales in Q4 AMD price cuts this month? Konica Minolta withdraws from the camera market DDR2 prices on the rise

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CPU record sales in Q4   Posted on 19/01/2006 at 14:53 by Marc

	AMD and Intel's results announcement show a good progression of the processor market. Intel announced a new processor sales record during the last quarter 2005, even though the average processor sale price has been slightly reduced. The Santa Clara giant announced processor sales of $7,329 billion including 33% of mobile CPUs. Last quarter, sales were of 7,267 billion as compared to $6,966 billion a year ago. At the time, mobile CPUs "only" represented 24.5% of the total. AMD's results are even better. Processor sales reached $1.31 billion. It represents a 35% increase compared to the previous quarter and 79% compared to last year. The number of units sold and the average price have increased.

AMD price cuts this month?   Posted on 19/01/2006 at 12:31 by Marc

	According to The Inquirer, some price cuts could happened on AMD's Athlon 64 X2 at the end of the month. The Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 4200+, 4400+ and 4800+ prices will be respectively reduced by 8, 11, 8 and 20%.If this information is verified, the 4600+ price will also change, because the 4800+ price reduction would bring it at the same level. This news needs however to be put in perspective, because the same source indicates that the FX-57 price should be reduced from $1,000 to $800, and it already happened during the FX-60 release more than a week ago.

Konica Minolta withdraws from the camera market   Posted on 19/01/2006 at 12:29 by Vincent

	The news came through this morning: Konica Minolta, the camera manufacturer amongst others, will progressively withdraw from this market starting form today and definitively the 30th of September 2007. The manufacturer was mainly known from the general public for affordable big zoom cameras such as the Z6 and for reflex and lenses (5D, 7D...). The whole photo division will shut down additionally to the minilab. Reflex and lens division will be taken over by Sony and the minilabs by Noritsu. The fate of the compact division and aftersales services is still unsettled: the representatives of Konica Minolta don't have any information on how cameras sold these days and in the months to come will be followed up. This news surprised everyone including Konica Minolta's employees who found out at the same time as we did via a press release sent by the head quarters.

DDR2 prices on the rise   Posted on 19/01/2006 at 08:58 by Marc

	After strong price cuts in November from $2.5 to $2, the 32 MB DDR-400 chips price has slightly increased to $2.33. This represents a 16.5% increase but the end price is still much lower than before the cuts. The DDR2, which was for a time cheaper than the DDR is now more expensive. End of October for example, a 64 MB DDR-400 chip was priced at $5.3, as compared to $4.74 for the same in DDR2-533. Today, the situation has changed and these chips are respectively priced at $4.43 and $4.96. DDR2 price increase is still going on with for example +3.6% yesterday. DDR memory prices have been however stable for more than a week.