According
to DigiTimes, Intel plans to lower the price for its Quad-Core Xeon 3200 and
Dual-Core Xeon 3000 processors, in April 2007, in a bid to help boost demand in
the 1-way server market. It will also introduce new 1-way targeted chipsets in
the second half of the year, but will hold off releasing new processors based on
45nm technology until 2008. The Quad-Core Xeon X3220 is expected to drop from
US$851 to US$530, while the X3210 will be cut from US$690 to US$423, say the
vendors, both decreases of close to 40%. Prices for Dual-Core Xeon 3040, 3050,
3060 and 3070 CPUs are also set to fall between 10-40%.