Intel hasn't sold a single Arrow Lake CPU at Germany's largest retailer — Core Ultra 200S sales stagnate after just one week
Intel hasn't sold a single Arrow Lake CPU at Germany's largest retailer — Core Ultra 200S sales stagnate after just one week
Arrow Lake's disappointing sales match its underwhelming performance.
Mindfactory is not really representative of overall market trends (in Germany specifically, let alone the globe).
That being said, not having a single Arrow Lake CPU sale is surprising.
I imagine this is like Best Buy selling something for $700 when you can buy it online for $500 and reporters pointing to poor BB sales and saying: "See! Nobody wants this product!"
Nah mindfactory is the one selling for $478.23. Aggressively low prices, fast shipping (as in they don't dally which usually means next day arrival) competent support but only the legal minimum, you can pay extra to get shop instead of manufacturer RMAs etc. Also free shipping only above a certain amount and if you order between midnight and IIRC six in the morning, as the story goes the CEO was annoyed that staff had nothing to do in the mornings while evenings were swamped. They're making money with volume and having customers who know what they want.
They should be pretty representative of people building their own boxes, be that private or companies who don't contract it out.