When Intel finally announced that they had designed a new dual-core low-frequency processor, they found an embarrassing situation, that is, all PC manufacturers had already placed full orders from AMD. [So many good novels]
Intel originally thought that if they designed and produced better low-frequency dual-core processors, they would definitely get large orders, thereby suppressing AMD in the low-end netbook market.
But they never expected that the market would be initially saturated. Although their products have better performance, all PC manufacturers seem to have agreed upon them and have not come to place orders at all.
Those PC manufacturers are very smart, and now everyone is in a default alliance, that is, until the sales of netbooks with AMD processors are almost complete, they will not sell netbooks with Intel processor cores, otherwise they will use AMD processors. How to sell a processor-based netbook? Price cut again
If the price is lowered again, hardware manufacturers such as Chaowei will make money according to the contract. What will they, a PC manufacturer, do? Although you won't lose money, if the pre-tax profit rate is less than 3%, it's not worth doing.
The added value of their brand alone should not be so low!
And how many low-frequency dual-core processors has AMD sold? More than thirty million!
I dare not say that this year's market has been filled, but those PC manufacturers will not order Intel processors until their sales do not exceed 80% of their inventory.
They also have to adjust the market from time to time. If the market is not as big as they expected, then whoever hoards too much will be doomed to lose money.
Besides, the performance of Intel's processor is better than that of AMD's, but the price is also higher. Read the full text of the latest chapter. Those who buy netbooks value cheap prices.
Manufacturers are desperately trying to reduce costs and want to lower prices. Who is willing to increase prices
Besides, a 1ghz CPU is enough, why should I change it to a 1.2 one
They won't buy or place an order for the time being. After they have digested this batch of super powerful CPUs, it will be too late to order again. Maybe by that time, the price of Intel's 1.2 CPU will also come down.
While Intel was depressed, everyone at AMD was smiling. When almost all PC manufacturers ordered this CPU from them, they ostensibly gave a discount to this dual-core 1ghz CPU in order to sell other models of CPU.
The discount is not very big, but it has also greatly increased the order volume of this CPU, and also increased the sales of their other products. When those PC manufacturers took a look at it, they found that in addition to the higher liquidated damages, this order did not require them to pay more, so there was no problem in placing the order early.
Even if the order quantity is a bit large, it doesn't matter to them. When the quantity is large, the price will be more favorable, and their costs will be reduced. Even if there is a little unsaleable, they can do something to deal with it later, and they can use these products to attract consumers.
Chaowei did this intentionally and it is a normal means of business competition. Give some reasonable preferential terms to capture customers. When competitors produce better products, they find that the market has been temporarily saturated.
Chaowei's orders have been scheduled until the end of the year. How can those PC manufacturers go to Intel to place new orders
If the performance of the CPU is very good, it doesn't matter if you buy more. However, this kind of CPU is only suitable for such low-priced netbooks and cannot be used on other products.
Chaowei's move put Intel into the embarrassing situation of designing a product but failing to sell it.
However, AMD still underestimated Intel's determination. Intel quickly announced that the price of their new low-frequency dual-core CPU had been reduced. When not a single order was sold, the price was reduced!
Even if the price is low, the profit is low, or it is not even profitable, Intelligent accepts it. They cannot watch AMD become bigger, they want to ensure that they are still the leader in processors.
As long as the market share is guaranteed, Intelligent will continue to be loved by consumers, even if it is because of habit.
In this way, they can reduce the market share of AMD Semiconductor, reduce the other party's sales and profits, and thus reduce the research and development speed of the other party's products.
When Feng Yu felt that this matter was a bit difficult to handle, Chaowei said there was no need to worry at all. They sued Yingte again for dumping and unfair competition.
They said that the new products sold by Intelligent, including R&D costs and production costs, would lose money if sold at the current price. This is an obvious act of dumping!
Chaowei and Intel are so familiar with each other that they can probably calculate the costs for both parties. Of course, Intel is not selling it at a discount. Chaowei is just causing some trouble for Intel.
Just like Chaowei's Athlon dual-core sales are much better than Intel's at this time, didn't Intel also find an excuse to sue Chaowei
The current impression given to consumers and PC manufacturers by Chaowei is that it is better than Intel in dual-core processors. And Intel is not opposed to dual-core or even multi-core being the development direction of CPUs in the future.
Therefore, many software at this time are optimized for dual cores. At this point, Chaowei took advantage.
Chaowei has also stepped up publicity on this point, constantly talking about its advantages. Now that Intel wants to surpass Chaowei in this aspect, Chaowei certainly cannot agree.
Feng Yu is not very good at these methods of competition. There are too many ways to do it. Chaowei also said that doing so will only slow down the sales of Intel's products, but in the end they still have to make a CPU with better performance to truly win.
They are now designing a low-voltage CPU and adopting a more advanced product architecture. Once this product is produced, Intel will undoubtedly lose when it comes to netbook CPUs.
Netbooks have very high requirements for low energy consumption, and Chaowei plans to do its best in this regard. Moreover, the size of the product must be reduced again. Lianxiang Group requires new netbooks to be thinner and lighter, so they naturally have to design products according to customer requirements.
In Feng Yu's opinion, today's netbooks are still not good enough, as far as performance is concerned. The netbooks before Feng Yu's rebirth are much better than the current ones, and are lighter and thinner, especially in terms of price. If it is less than one thousand RMB, then the production cost is almost around one hundred US dollars.
But now, the cost is still over 300 US dollars, so Feng Yu said that there is still a lot of room for improvement.
There are requirements for hardware accessories vendors, software vendors and manufacturers. Only by working together can the cost be controlled to such a low level.
However, some people say that the netbook that cost less than a thousand yuan in the previous life was just a tablet with a keyboard and was not a real notebook at all.
But Feng Yu himself pays more attention to the research and development of tablets, which will be one of the hottest sales in the future.
… (To be continued.)