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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

Intel wants to get the same money they made before despite the lower sales, that's why they're raising the prices.

And I'd say that the price increase is already happening. In several stores the Alder Lake processors are more expensive now than when they launched, at least both the 12600K and the 12700K.

Almost feels like we finished off the Pascal era and headed towards the Turing era for CPUs where we are going to have a "new normal" pricing for products despite the jump not being as impressive as they used to be.

Higher CPU prices, higher motherboard prices because the chipsets, made by Intel themselves, will also be more expensive, mid and lower end CPU being repurposed Alder Lake processors... Intel could have beaten AMD's Zen4 in all fronts, but it's like they are trying to sabotage their own efforts.

Rhonin the wizard said:

Rumor: Intel Arc GPU effectively cancelled: 'decision has been made'
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/88393/intel-arc-gpu-effectively-cancelled-decision-has-been-made/index.html
Well, here we are once again... and we have leaker Moore's Law is Dead reporting (once again, but this time with more meat, or should I say salt for the rumor mill) that Intel's desktop Arc GPU is so bad that, that Intel has canceled discrete Arc GPUs internally. MLID says it's not because Intel doesn't have the balls to hit the GPU market and compete against AMD and NVIDIA... but rather from a financial perspective (and I'm sure a lot more behind the scenes) they just can't do it.

I'd use a quite generous amount of salt coming from that source, but given how the remaining ARC GPUs to launch are the best Intel can do and that they'll be murdered by Nvidia and AMD in the next 3 months, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that Intel decided to scrap those cards and focus on the future ones.

After all, brand perception is also important, and the upcoming ada and RDNA3 would put ARC in such a bad position that it could damage Intel's brand even more than the driver/software problems of the ARC380.