Corporation Intel has presented 10 new processors and has declared sharp fall in prices.
Intel Corp. has declared the largest updating a line of let out products for last 6 years. The company has presented family from 10 new processors of family Core 2 Duo which, on a plan of a management, will help Intel to win back a number of the positions, given to the main competitor - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. New chips work on 40 % more quickly, than last models of family Pentium, and thus consume on 40 % of less energy. The price for processors will make from 183 up to 999 dollars. They will go on sale in August 2006. Besides, Intel has declared sharp fall in prices on earlier models of processors. So, the price on developed in 2000 Pentium 4 is lowered on 61 % - with 218 up to 84 dollars Deprecication Pentium D will reach 40 % - with 530 up to 316 dollars. During 2006 Intel has given competing AMD about 5 % of the market.
Net profit of Intel on results of 2nd quarter of 2006 has decreased on 56,6 % - up to 885 million dollars. The Sales volume was reduced to 13 % and has made 8 billion dollars. These activities became the lowest for the company with 2004.