Intel make a killing either way.
Motherboard sales are in the toilet. The reason for that is Intel's strategy of charging a fortune for chips and offering nothing over 5 years.
I'm going to keep posting this every time someone tries to claim Intel have ramped up prices for there consumer cpu's of late...
Its simply not true that Intel have ramped up the price of their I7 CPU's over previous gens in recent years.
The price we pay fluctuates due to the £/$ exchange rate and (especially with Skylake) shortages in the retail channels (in was candidly admitted on these forums last year by a member of ocuk staff that retailers in general were making much larger percentages than normal on Skylake chips as the demand was far outstripping the supply so retailers could charge a bigger premium.)
I have previously demonstrated that Intel have NOT ramped up their pricing in recent years... Its just not true!
Previously posted........
Check out the launch bulk prices (i.e. what Intel sell on to retailers OEM’s etc) for the previous ‘top end’ i7 consumer socket four core/ eight thread CPU’s over the past four years
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/85...-14nm-skylake/
Launch 1ku prices
6700k $350 - August 2015
5775c $366
4790k $339
4770k $339
3770k $313
2700k $332 - October 2011
Allowing for inflation (http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ ) from 2011 to 2015 plugging the 2700k value in gives an inflation adjusted price of…………………….
Drum roll
$351.20!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The 6700k is a 14nm CPU so where is the premium Intel charged for the CPU new over the previous gen Broadwell (which they asked more for! - probably due to the iGPU) and over the gen before that, Haswell, where they asked for a whole $11 dollars less.
Haswell to Skylake is 22nm to 14nm with a whole new CPU design to cost for
Haswell-E to Broadwell-E is the same design shrunk from 22nm to 14nm i.e. probably cheaper to deal with then a new CPU design
Oh and if you factor in inflation for the 4770k (march 2013) to 2015 the price goes from 339 to 346
so basically adjusted for Inflation Intel's 4c/8t top end cpu pricing has remained pretty much unchanged despite spending 'billions' in the mean time to develop new designs on smaller processes.......
Intel's first breakthrough quad the q6600 cost $851 on launch in January 2007 reduced to $266 in July 2007
The mainstream Core 2 Quad Q6600, clocked at 2.4 GHz, was launched on January 8, 2007 at US$851 (reduced to US$530 on April 7, 2007). July 22, 2007 marked the release of the Q6700, and Extreme QX6850 Kentsfields at US$530 and US$999 respectively along with a further price reduction of the Q6600 to US$266
$266 2007 dollars adjusted to 2015 money is well over $300 dollars for what would have by then not been a top end consumer part with the q6700 and qx6850 above it
Recent inter generational frequency and ipc improvements have been lacklustre but this clearly has more to do with physics then Intels retail strategy as evidences by the difficulties everyone else is having getting new mass market small fab designs to market....
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