en.Wedoany.com Reported - Intel has confirmed a price increase for its CPU products, triggering a price hike cycle across the entire computer industry, including desktops and laptops. In the current round of semiconductor component price increases, memory products have led the upward trend, with DRAM and NAND Flash prices rising for multiple consecutive cycles, continuously passing cost pressures to system manufacturers. Now, with CPUs following suit in price adjustments, the two core components of computer manufacturing are experiencing simultaneous price increases, placing dual upward pressure on the industry chain's cost side.

Intel stated that the company routinely monitors global supply chain operations and tracks associated cost fluctuations in upstream raw materials, wafer foundry, logistics, and other areas. This price adjustment is an operational decision based on multi-dimensional cost changes. Industry institutions have completed a comparative survey of channel quotes before and after Intel's price adjustment, confirming that all desktop and mobile CPUs have been subject to price increases, with channel procurement costs rising accordingly.

CPUs account for a significant portion of the total cost of a complete computer system. Following Intel's price adjustment, brand system manufacturers and OEMs face directly increased procurement costs. To maintain profit margins, downstream manufacturers are likely to pass on the cost increase to the end retail market, leading to gradual price increases for products such as laptops, desktops, and industrial control systems. Consumer procurement costs may also rise in tandem, and this round of hardware price hikes is expected to persist for some time.