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PC Gamer
James Bentley

Intel's 13th and 14th Gen chips will reportedly see a 10% price hike soon, partly in response to 'the lackluster performance of AI PCs'

Intel Core i9 13900K Raptor Lake chip on a promotional box.

If you've bought a gaming PC, or even thought about buying a gaming PC in the last year or so, there's a good chance you've seen them labelled as AI PCs. Turns out the desire for AI is lower than we might have thought, if recent Intel reports prove true.

According to Digitimes (machine translated), Intel is reportedly raising the prices of its elderly Raptor Lake chips by over 10%, and "industry analysts believe the price increase is likely related to TSMC and the lackluster performance of AI PCs." Raptor Lake CPUs, of course, do not have AI-accelerating NPUs.

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