Intel Pentium D 950 to get 50 percent price cut

Intel will lower the prices of its 65nm dual-core Pentium D 9xx series by 13 to 15 percent on April 23th, DigiTimes heard from their sources at Taiwanese motherboard makers.

The chip giant hopes to accelerate the migration to dual-core processors with these price cuts.

A week after the price cuts, the company will also launch the Pentium D 930 for $530. This will be a dual-core processor clocked at 3.6GHz.

New prices for Intel dual-core processors (US$)
Model	Clock speed	Current price	New price (April 23, 2006)	New price (3Q, 2006)
960	3.60 GHz	-	530 (April 30)	316
950	3.40 GHz	637	316	241
940	3.20 GHz	423	241	209
930	3 GHz	316	209	-
920	2.80 GHz	241	209	178