Intel has reportedly informed its major PC clients of a planned 10% price increase on its consumer CPUs. According to industry sources cited by ET News, this price hike will affect Intel's Core Ultra family of processors, which power hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide. As a result, PC OEMs may ne...
  • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    18 days ago

    What a novel idea. Blanket increase costs on their NEW garbage hardware that absolutely nobody wants to buy.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    18 days ago

    Capitalism is the enemy… Intel are clearly just looking to bump their stock price with this news, which probably means they have bad news to give soon.

    I bet it will be the classic “We’re raising prices because our market share is in decline”.

  • MOARbid1@piefed.socialEnglish
    91·
    18 days ago

    I’ve not bought an Intel product in 15 years, and I guess I’ll keep that streak going.

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    18 days ago

    Don’t people have to actually buy their consumer CPUs for this to actually mean anything?