After the financial results offered by Intel for the fourth quarter of last year, we know what awaits us shortly. With revenues of $20.528 million (+3% year-over-year compared to 2020), Intel plans to take another step to improve the numbers and thus break the promise made by Pat Gelsinger: the Core 12 will have a The price increasesand also that of the rest of the CPUs available in stores?
The branch that carries processors for customers who are not part of the restricted group of those who opt for Xeon is called Customer IT Group, where we logically enter the users. The server sector has always been separate, so we will ignore it in this article to focus on what interests us: CPUs for laptops and desktops, in short, PCs in general.
Intel continues to falter in 2021
We won’t bore you with numbers and more numbers, just simple data, so let’s get to it to figure out what’s going on. Intel lost Q4 2021 and 7% in revenue despite launching the Core 12, which we believe predicted the exact opposite.
But it is that the losses do not come so much from there but from the segmentation of the platforms. As we know, the laptop market was “on fire”, there was no way to stop it, and there was even out of stock at times, last year’s data according to models and processors. Well, that changes. The trend for laptops in general has gone down to 16% and now it returns to dominate the desktop PC with a 19% of income and there the launch of Alder Lake was noticed.
The problem is that in terms of overall CPU sales, Intel has fallen 18%, where it’s unclear whether that’s due to the industry slump and high prices or AMD’s push.
The rise in the price of Core 12, or all of them?
As we mentioned, Intel has publicly promised to maintain the price of its server and desktop processors, but that will not be met as such. And is that the slide shows how the average ASP price has increased in laptops no less than one 14% and the average desktop price has 11%.
The problem here is simple: it’s not specified which processors in particular have increased in price, not even the ranges and not the specific order volume for them, but given the boost Intel has made with the Core 12, it It’s more than likely that the price hike is for them. Therefore, and in case of doubt, it is more than likely that the next time these are shipped to stores, we will see how certain models or series increase in percentage. more than 10%something similar to what AMD had to do.
The reasons ? uncertain. Rise in commodity prices? Absence of substrates as we saw a few weeks ago? Speculation? At the moment no one has done any analysis to dot the i’s, but that prices will go up is a certainty that Intel itself has already revealed publicly, so it’s a matter of when and if you are planning to buy a better Core 12 Now than in a week.
