We wrote that AMD is now focusing more on the sub-€200 / $200 market here and there is a good explanation why. Obviously, the key reason is that AMD's K10 cannot really compete with Penryn at 3.0+ frequencies; but it looks like the sub-$200 segment pays 96.6 percent of the bills.  

This is the best bang for the buck market and, according to Mercury, in 2008 it is expected that 96.6 percent of the market will be under $200. This mean that only 5.5 million CPUs that are planned to sell in 2008 are going to cost more than $200. Shocking, isn’t it?

Mercury research projects that the rest of the 160 million estimated units in 2008 will be sub-$200, with the sweet spot in the $100 to $200 market.

With this in mind, Triple- and Quad-core AMD CPUs make much more sense, at least at their affordable prices.