Intel's 13th and 14th Gen chips will reportedly see a 10% price hike soon, partly in response to 'th
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on December 08, 2025
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 (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.
Raptor Lake had a pretty miserable launch, as . A year and a half later, to fix problems with them.
Our testing of Raptor Lake chips like the or show a strong outing, considerably better than the likes of the or that launched late last year. Intel has had a couple of rocky years, but there's solid productivity chops and a recognisable brand name under it all.
, and it's no surprise that it's getting a new NPU specifically for AI workloads. If these recent reports prove true, there's a chance this refresh is a tad misguided.
Nova Lake is also reportedly launching late next year, and . Intel will need more than raw cores to catch up with AMD's rather dominant lead, though. Arrow Lake has seen performance fixes and price cuts since its launch, and Intel admits it 'fumbled the football', so a lot is riding on the future of Nova Lake. Perhaps the resurgence of sales for Raptor Lake is a sign that the focus will be less on AI. Though given the [[link]] , somehow I think that might not happen.
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