Skylake X to Be Heavily Discounted Soon

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Computerbase.de has reported on Intel preparing to essentially slash prices on it’s Skylake-X processors. Earlier this year end of life was announced for these HEDT processors so it should come as no big surprise that a discount was inevitable but not many would believe in the possibility of potentially halving, or more, their prices so soon.

This shouldn’t be too much of a shock since AMD has been providing quite a bit of competition throughout the year. Both companies are also expected to launch their next respective product lines soon as well and competitive pricing will be key to their success.

Computer Base has provided some approximate price estimates but variations should be expected and the estimates are based on Euro to Dollar conversion. Here are some of the more higher priced offerings.

• Core i9-9980XE reduced from $1979 to $921
• Core i9-9960X reduced from $1684 to $760
• Core i9-9940X reduced from $1387 to $563
• Core i9-9920X reduced from $1189 to $466

I admit I’m a little skeptical that Intel would so aggressively lower their prices but anything is possible. They’ve also reported on already seeing the 9940X discounted from over 1350 euro to just over 800 euro which does provide hope these price estimates may be closer to truth than not.

 

[IKV1476]

Still over priced.
I do not understand why so many are still "Intel is teh bestest!" when AMD has clearly better products competing against this type of cpu workload.
Intel is not worthy of our money. They have been overcharging and sitting on old tech with minor updates for years.

 

[Dan_D]

Intel had been pricing the 9980XE well beyond the standard price point for the top end offering in the HEDT space that stood for over a decade. So a reduction to $921 isn't unreasonable. Intel can afford to get more aggressive in the space. It has to, I'd wager that Threadripper is eating their lunch in the space.

 

[Uvilla]

So that's 20$ per security flaw.

 

[Brian_B]

How high of a volume do the HEDT SKUs sell in anyway?

I expect it's enough to make it worthwhile at least, but I can't imagine it being so high as to have a meaningful impact on the bottom line. I always suspected these were extremely high margin, but very low volume and created more as halo products than anything.

I agree with Dan_D, this appears more to be Intel adjusting back to historical pricing. I'm glad AMD is around.