AMD Cuts Chip Prices

AMD Cuts Chip Prices puts another piece of PC gear into the September hardware pile, and 1999 is not exactly short on that right now.

According to ZDNet, Advanced Micro Devices, keeping the heat on Intel, has reduced prices on certain clock speeds of its desktop K6-2 and K6-III processors by up to 25 percent. AMD’s K6-2 475MHz desktop chip received the largest cut, falling 25 percent from $152 to $114. The K6-2 450MHz was reduced 17 percent from $112 to $93.

The hardware race is getting mean, and the upside is simple: gamers keep getting faster, stranger toys to bolt into their rigs.