MQ@Mar364503The repeated price hikes were not likely due to surging laptop demand. They were more caused by shortage of wafers. One day, wafer shortage will reach to a point that even if all the wafers are allocated to AI chips, there will not be enough. When products are in such extreme
Jukan@jukan05Taiwanese media: Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD have all raised CPU prices or are planning to do so. Intel raised CPU prices across product lines starting September 1. High-end Panther Lake products saw increases of 15–20%, while Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake prices rose by around