Intel seems to have an internal doctrine that will not adjust pricing not matter what, and historically they've never really done it even in rare moments that AMD had a strong offering. Unfortunate byproduct of one company having 90+% marketshare.@BobbyB I think this is going to drop prices on the E5-1600 line.
When you're making 22 core CPUs I'd bet it is easy to make 8-10 core parts just from binning.
Price competition is good but Intel's response can be just pricing based with what they already have.
Here's the sad but true part - those 4 cores are fine for 99%+ of desktopsIt'll be interesting to see what AMD produces; the fact that its 2017 and Intel's still able to fart around with only 4 cores in the latest desktop-mainstream (Baby Lake) underlines just how little fire is under their asses from a competition standpoint.
And even more sad, probably 80% of servers as well based on a general enterprise DC workload. (Cloud DC of course not though)Here's the sad but true part - those 4 cores are fine for 99%+ of desktops