Intel Alder Lake CPU leak hints at some wallet-worrying prices

Date:
Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:16:51 +0000

Description:
Spilled prices from Amazon UK (and other European operations) may cause some concern.

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Intels incoming Alder Lake processors , which might just be here at the
start of November , have had more pricing leaks, this time from various
Amazon listings across Europe.

To be precise, weve witnessed price tag spillage from Amazon UK, as well as Amazon in France and the Netherlands, but as ever with leaked prices, put on your most skeptical head while perusing these they could well be placeholders, as we often see when product listings go up before release.
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As flagged by regular leaker @momomo_us on Twitter and Dellchannel21 (via
Toms Hardware ), the prices are in the ballpark of the $800 to $900 mark for the Core i9-12900K, while the Core i7-12700K is pegged at around $620.

The midrange Core i5-12600K demands an asking price of around $310 to $350 (note that those are currency conversions from either Euros or pounds, but minus the VAT). uk pic.twitter.com/kUk8OvDQlI October 3, 2021 See more

In its native currency, Amazon UK pitches the Core i9-12900K at 791 (thats including VAT), with the Core i7-12700K at 550, and the 12600K at 311.

Whichever way you dice it, with or without taxes, these Alder Lake early product listings make for worryingly pricey propositions. Analysis: Placeholder prices, for sure?

In fact, the prices provided here look way off the mark. Surely Amazon UK
cant be thinking of listing the Alder Lake 12900K flagship at almost 800? Naturally, that wouldnt be the recommended price from Intel, but of course retailers can set their own levels for chips though Amazon surely wouldnt push that far.

Remember, the asking price for the 11900K , its predecessor, stands at around the 500 mark on Amazon UK currently, and while we could expect something of a hike for the 12900K, it wouldnt be to the tune of almost 60%. Far more likely that these are early placeholder prices for the 12th-gen processors , and the same is no doubt likely to be true for the other European Amazon operations cited in this latest bit of leakage.

The other point to consider here is that weve seen price leaks for Alder Lake before, and recently retailer Provantage listed the Core i9-12900K at $610 , which seems far more reasonable as a palatable cut above the suggested price of $549 in the US for the 11900K.

So, as observed, we could well expect something of a price increase these
are new products bringing some exciting CPU innovation to the table, and
Intel is seriously talking up Alder Lake performance.

Plus the global component shortage which is still very much in evidence may well exert upward pressure on prices too (and mean retailers could charge a fair chunk more than the recommended pricing). Even given all that, though,
we still feel that this latest price leakage seems pretty clearly
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