Friday, July 15th 2022
Intel to Hike Core and Xeon CPU Pricing by up to 20%
According to the latest report from Nikkei Asia, Intel will raise its CPU pricing structure starting this fall. Citing concerns of increased electricity, raw materials, and labor costs, Intel has informed its clients that the company will add additional overhead to its existing pricing structure to make up for that difference. The report indicates that most of its microprocessors and peripheral chip products will be affected. However, the main target of the inflating costs is the company's Core and Xeon processor families. If you are wondering just how much will this price hike be, the current speculations point to anywhere from a 10 to 20 percent increase.
Of course, this information should be taken with a grain of salt. However, it is quite possible to see this price hike in the upcoming fall season, and we have to wait and see if it plays out.
Sources:
Nikkei Asia, via ComputerBase.de
Of course, this information should be taken with a grain of salt. However, it is quite possible to see this price hike in the upcoming fall season, and we have to wait and see if it plays out.
54 Comments on Intel to Hike Core and Xeon CPU Pricing by up to 20%
If Intel increase prices i don't think the Core percentage to be so high, worst case imo 13900KS to match 5950X's SRP and the rest accordingly from there, like the below example, so up to 15% max, maybe 20% is for Xeon line:
i went to Intel's website to verify the price of 12900KS and it showed $393 lol
It won't be justified based on performance imo.
Probably 13600KF will have similar price and gaming performance with 7600X ($299 if it match 5600X) and it will be 40% faster or more in multithreading apps like Cinebench if it's a 6P+8E design!
Plus do you realise how many chips Intel makes outside and peripheral to Your core interest, they're rnd budget, and Potential market is considerably bigger and more diverse than AMD'S though that xilinx purchase helped, but Intel's a behemoth.
And if you already have Am4 or l1700 you likely Don't need to upgrade.
If you. Still want to upgrade, then his point was Intel increasing price's is not going to increase sale's.
Am5 verses i1700 and a CPU, that battle isn't here yet so who knows how it will pan out, it's not looking like it will not be pretty in this market though.
Increasing the price of their CPUs is the worst thing they could do. Alder Lake has good value but after a 20% hike that makes Ryzen the better choice, especially with the AM4 platform which supports vastly more CPUs on a single motherboard.
In essence it takes the very tiny good will Intel was starting to build and ruins it by dashing the short value stint Alder Lake has enjoyed. Unfortunately all companies are pushing for more profits. It's up to us consumers to inform them that we get the final say of what does and doesn't sell. I advise all PC gamers to look at price to performance and consider if it's worth upgrading to the latest CPU to get those few extra frames.
Clearly $393 is a mistake in Intel's website (that they still haven't corrected it, at least not yet!)
ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/134599/intel-core-i912900k-processor-30m-cache-up-to-5-20-ghz.html
Yep knew intel was missing the hedt revenue
Those price slashes we can thank amd for that killer 16 core, coming out with better performance driving intel gouging down.
In that case maybe the 3D V-cache iterations will be needed sooner than later?
Just kidding!