Global economic headwinds will continue to intensify and the PC and gaming markets will remain unaffected. Inflation is everywhere. Found in fuel pumps, supermarkets and PC retail stores. With some unavoidable moves, Intel plans to raise prices across a large range of its product lines due to inflationary pressures.
News comes via Nikkei Asia (Opens in a new tab) When Register (Opens in a new tab).. Intel does not specify exactly what products are affected or how much, but it can affect most, if not all, products in the product portfolio. Its complex supply chain and rising logistics costs mean that rising prices are not unexpected, and we expect others in the industry to follow us sooner rather than later. Consumers will pay as upstream costs increase.
According to The Register, price increases can be as high as 20%. I don’t think there will be much more consumer product lines, but the 20% higher price of enterprise products can be absorbed a little easier. Yes, most companies are doing well.
Price increases are the last thing the industry needs after experiencing one of the biggest slowdowns in the industry. (Opens in a new tab).. This happened after other factors such as the pandemic boom and lower GPU prices due to the disappearance of mining demand. (Opens in a new tab) And we are waiting for next-generation products.
Every day, I feel that the world economy is wobbling. There is some good news, such as low unemployment, but it seems inevitable that a global recession will occur. If that happens, hitting is like discretionary spending on the game. It’s nice to have a new RTX40 or RDNA3 card in your Ryzen 7000 or 13th generation processor, but they have to wait for many buyers. Rent, car fuel and table food come first. And they are all rising in price.
What do you think of this news? Do price increases discourage game system upgrades? It’s interesting to see how these increases will affect the demand for Intel products, and how all other manufacturers will affect them in the coming months and years. The pandemic Sugar Rush and its low-cost funding is over. Welcome to the new normal.
