Older Generation AMD Processors Will Fall Rates

CALIFORNIA - After announcing a new series accelerated processing unit (APU) based FM2 (Trinity) on October 1, 2012, AMD reportedly will lower the price of the previous generation of APU. The price drop is approximately 30 percent.

Reported by Digitimes, AMD processor (APU) previous generations, the A4-3300 series will come down in price based FM1. The decline was ranging from USD46 to USD30. AMD Taiwan declined to comment on the price reduction strategy.

In addition, AMD will also lower the price of the A4-3400 series, from $ 48 to $ 35. Not only that, with the launch of A4-based FM2-5300, the company is headquartered in California is also lowering the price of USD53 to USD30 CPU.

That said, the decline in the price of AMD's hardware is a step in the strategy to win the competition against the Intel Pentium series. Since shares of AMD in the desktop market global crash below 20 percent, AMD has aggressively pursued a strategy to boost demand for the product price.

Meanwhile, the information that was revealed some time to mention AMD to cut 2340 employees. AMD announced that its third-quarter sales forecast to decline about 10 percent from the previous period. The decline was larger than previously estimated.

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