Yuriman
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Incidentally, for those who think Intel is their best friend: why exactly did i5-2500K launch at $216 and i5-3570K at $235? Maybe the lack of competition from AMD this year was even less than last year?
I'm not proposing that Intel is my friend, but it might be for the same reason that Intel decided to produce more Sandy Bridge chips for budget OEM HTPCs rather than Ivy Bridge versions - suggesting that the die size savings don't make up for the cost increase of moving to 22nm, even when you consider that the research and design is already done and paid for.