Friday, February 12th 2021
Intel Apparently Discounting 10th-Gen CPUs in Bid to Claw Market from AMD
Intel has apparently begun discounting its desktop CPUs, perhaps in a bid to try and maintain market share earning momentum the company garnered in the last few months. As AMD struggles to keep up with consumer demand for its latest Ryzen 5000 series, Intel looks to be capitalizing on its vertical integration (as well as the fact that Intel owns its own fabs and fabricates in a more than mature 14 nm process). A interesting move by the blue giant, who has generally opted out of a price reduction strategy - a move that might make Intel look on the back foot, and as an alternative budget brand, to the incommensurately smaller AMD.
Various retailers have been carrying Intel inventory with much reduced prices over their official MSRP. Amazon, for example, is offering the Intel Core i7-10700K for $344, down from its average pricing of $383. In the same retailer, the iGPU-less i7-10700F processor is down from $315 one month ago to just $229. Odds are that this is an Intel decision because if one considers the amount of demand on PC products and components due to COVID-19, it's very likely that consumers who can't get an AMD 5000-series CPU will still choose to purchase hardware - even if it has to be from Intel. So retailers eschewing part of their profits at a time like this seems slightly off-character.
Source:
TechSpot
Various retailers have been carrying Intel inventory with much reduced prices over their official MSRP. Amazon, for example, is offering the Intel Core i7-10700K for $344, down from its average pricing of $383. In the same retailer, the iGPU-less i7-10700F processor is down from $315 one month ago to just $229. Odds are that this is an Intel decision because if one considers the amount of demand on PC products and components due to COVID-19, it's very likely that consumers who can't get an AMD 5000-series CPU will still choose to purchase hardware - even if it has to be from Intel. So retailers eschewing part of their profits at a time like this seems slightly off-character.
103 Comments on Intel Apparently Discounting 10th-Gen CPUs in Bid to Claw Market from AMD
They did take prices down another notch but they reportedly also have 11-series coming in soon.
Its amazing to me how sometimes no matter how decent something that can come out of Intel, especially in difficult general eras of the market, people will still find a way to take a dump on objectively good products at good prices.
though, not interested in current gen. Waiting to see PCI5 and DDR5.
At this price you could add a entry z490 board and 16GB of 3200 and be just under the price of a 5800x alone (if you could even find one).
Intel Core i5-10400F 130 euro in germany
insane !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Surely Intel then wants the 2021 "Christmas Season" buyer to jumping into the Alder Lake offering. What worries me though is the pricing of all the new hardware. Z590 mobos are already listed at a cool 25%-30% increase over last year. A Z590 Asus Hero VIII is $500 at BH. I now wonder what will Asus charge for their new LGA 1700 socket mobos in a relatively few months time?
Does this mean that all my existing cooling solutions are essentially obsolete in a few months the time? Why hasn't this been brought-up by any AIO manufacturers and those taking an official stand on this? Something is not clear. To be sure I would like to see an "official clarification" on this from either a manufacturer or Intel directly and not someone on the street telling me not to worry. Thoughts?
10600K for $189. 10700K (yes K) is $279. 10850K is $350.
10400 is $129 and 10700 is $249, which both come with a stock cooler - and you can use the stock cooler with both of those no problem.
If AMD had an 8 Core CPU 100€ cheaper than a 6 Core Intel, you would be bragging about it like I seen you before "10% margin of error". Just stop.
In the US the 10850K is more expensive, in Germany the 10850K is MUCH more expensive:
www.amazon.de/-/en/i9-10850K-Processor-LGA1200-99A750-BX8070110850KA/dp/B08DRN56BK
www.amazon.de/-/en/AMD-Ryzen-5600X-Box-Processor/dp/B08166SLDF/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=5600x&qid=1613184314&s=computers&sr=1-1
Spain the 10850K is more expensive:
www.amazon.es/Intel-Core-i9-10850K-Procesador-sobremesa/dp/B08CGT7T32/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=10850k&qid=1613184429&sr=8-1
www.amazon.es/AMD-Ryzen-5-5600X-Box/dp/B08166SLDF/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=5600x&qid=1613184441&sr=8-1
France the 10850K is more expensive:
www.amazon.fr/AMD-Ryzen-5-5600X-RyzenTM/dp/B08166SLDF/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=5600x&qid=1613184513&sr=8-1
www.amazon.fr/CPU-Core-i9-10850K-3-60GHZ-LGA1200/dp/B08CGT7T32/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=10850k&qid=1613184529&sr=8-1
Yeah, the pricing is so poor on the 5600X it is the top seller in Europe and the 3rd top selling in the US.
The 10850K ain't even in the top 20. All you got is personal attacks and cherry picking? Kinda sad.