[News] It's official: Intel 9th Gen processors go down in price

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Almost 3 months ago the news of the price cut by Intel in its processors jumped, where there was talk of up to -15% of the price according to which models. Months went by and this reduction was not considered effective, but now and interestingly after the launch of Cascade Lake-X and the new Xeon 2000, Intel announces a price reduction in some processors of its ninth generation.
Intel leaves Cascade Lake-X, Xeon 2000 at almost half

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At the end of last week we already announced the great price cut of Swan's in relation to its range of Cascade Lake-X and Xeon 2000 processors, where the cost had been reduced by its highest average to almost -50%.

The funny thing about all this is that the 9th generation of its desktop gaming processors had not touched on this aspect, especially considering that Zen 2 is already on the market and is literally devouring the 9000 series in sales.

Today's announcement releases doubts about what Intel is going to take to counter AMD and stop, at least in part, the sales bleeding they are taking. But to understand the reason for this measure, we have to understand what the real substance of this matter is.

As sure that we have seen all in the main stores, Intel launched several variants of its processors, where we could find models K, KF and F. The last two have the peculiarity that the processor that includes said tag in its name will not carry a graphics card iGPU inside, being disabled, but physically if it remained in the die.

This was done to take better advantage of the wafers, where as we said, the most complicated part of manufacturing for Swan was precisely the iGPU, which was lowering the success rate of chips in the company. Therefore and partly following the trend of AMD in gaming processors, Intel decided to sell these processors without iGPU, obtaining greater profitability per wafer.