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fliptop [soylentnews.org] writes:

Intel has raised the pricing of its 12th-gen Alder Lake [tomshardware.com] processors in its online Ark product database, reflecting a 10% increase in pricing for the company's previous-gen desktop PC chips. In some cases, that can be a ~$60 increase in the price for a chip [tomshardware.com]:

For now, the company's newer 13th-gen Raptor Lake [tomshardware.com] processors, which come with more cores and drastically faster performance, are actually less expensive than the previous-gen models. However, we expect the Raptor Lake models to also see price hikes soon, perhaps giving AMD a leg up in the pricing department.

[...] In an odd twist, that means the previous-gen Alder Lake models are now more expensive than the current-gen Raptor Lake chips. However, the latter comes with more cores and is significantly faster, topping both our list of the best CPUs for gaming [tomshardware.com] and our CPU Benchmark [tomshardware.com] Hierarchy, so we expect those chips will also see price hikes in the coming days.

I checked Ingram Micro to confirm and right now a 12th-gen i9-12900F 16-core 2.4GHz CPU is $502.26, while a 13th-gen i7-13700KF 16-core 3.4GHz is $404.27.

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