There are a few more price drops in the Intel chart than in the AMD section of the guide... but it's literally "a few more." And none of these price changes reached significant amounts. The biggest decrease, in fact, is a $6 drop in the price of the 3.2 GHz Celeron D 351, with most of the other processors holding steady and a few inching upwards or downwards. On the mainstream side of things, the price of the 1.86 GHz Core 2 Duo E6300 increased by $6, while a few of the higher-clocked Core 2 models dropped by $1-$3.
The second CPU price guide of 2007, unfortunately, is no more exciting than the first, and it is really looking like AMD and Intel are both playing the waiting game. The overwhelming majority of the processor prices we track continue to hold steady, with only a few dropping at all and none moving down by very much. This price stability is a bit of a surprise for the mainstream and high-end markets, where the Athlon 64 X2 and Core 2 Duo continue to battle, and where Intel is extending their Core 2 Quad line to mainstream buyers.
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