Intel is reportedly planning on joining the crowd and is set to hike up its CPU prices by as much as 10% by next year. This price hike will supposedly be spread across both server and client products.
News of Intel’s price hike comes by way of Digitimes, which was told by supply chain sources. To be clear, their sources didn’t say which product exactly would be affected, but the assumption is that the blue chipmaker’s mobile and server businesses will likely be affected before the desktop market eventually feels the pinch.
As for when Intel plans on increasing price, it’s being reported that the chipmaker could do so before March 2027: that’s reportedly when it plans on launching “major annual products”, meaning either Nova Lake for desktop or the successor to the current Panther Lake lineup, the latter having blown our minds with its performance since we first got our hands on it.
On a sidebar, the company’s next-gen Nova Lake desktop CPUs are set to enter mass production in the fourth quarter 2026 with a release in the first quarter of 2027, which pretty much lines up with its price hike.
Not that we’re defending its actions, but news about Intel raising its prices isn’t anything new by any stretch of the imagination. Its CFO, David Zinsner, previously said that Intel’s 13% year-on-year increase in client revenue was due to a higher average selling price, not through higher sales volume.
On the other end of the rainbow, red chipmaker AMD could also match the price hike cadence of its rival, although it’ll only do it within June or July of next year, presumably to avoid any clashing. For that matter, it’s unclear if that price hike will also be across the board, affecting its future Venice server CPUs and pre-existing lineups. On the subject of Venice, these CPUs are their first Zen 6 (codename Olympic Ridge) CPUs we’ve gotten wind of, and they’re packing AMD’s 3D V-Cache with up to 1,152MB of L3 on each chip.
(Source: DigiTimes via Tom’s Hardware)
