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Old October 4th 19, 10:50 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Default Intel halves the price of 18-core i9!

On Friday, October 4, 2019 at 2:08:46 AM UTC+8, Paul wrote:

The most expensive processors in the list, the price on those
is negotiable. And the day Spectre/Meltdown came out, you can
be sure the spot price dropped like a rock. Nobody ever pays
$13000 for the $13000 processor (only a "consumer" does that).

https://s21.q4cdn.com/600692695/file...Price_List.pdf


Some weird offerings on that price list: like a $213 hexcore on LGA3647,
which is intended for the many-core monster Xeons. So the mainboard would
cost 4x as much as the CPU?