Intel CPU Prices Set to Rise Another 10% in Early October

According to Jin10, supply chain sources said Intel's PC CPU prices have been raised repeatedly over the past year in response to surging overall costs, and are set to rise another 10% in early October. Supply chain analysis said Intel is still raising CPU prices even though the PC terminal market is expected to see a slight decline in 2027, indicating that boosting gross margins is its primary goal and that its past practice of cutting prices to win market share is gone. The analysis added that if Intel makes low gross margins an important threshold for product retention, some products will be forced out, and any demand released could give Arm camp players such as MediaTek and Qualcomm a chance to enter, especially in the IPC, edge computing, and IoT markets, where Arm SoCs have the advantages of high integration and low power consumption.