Through a week after release of Intel Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake processors, Germany’s largest online PC component retailer did not sell a single one.
At Mindfactory, Intel processors account for only 5% of all sales, while AMD takes the remaining 95%. A small amount of Arrow Lake was sold in the American stores Newegg and Amazon.
The above tweet contains data on Mindfactory’s processor sales for the past week. None of the Core Ultra 9 285K, Core Ultra 7 265K/KF or Core Ultra 5 245K/KF is not listed. The highest Intel on the list, the Core i5-13400, is only 21st behind the «wall of» Ryzen processors. The rest of the Intel processors are lower and also sold in quantities of about 10 units.
Intel’s approximately 40 sales with an average price tag of €388 account for 5.19% of Mindfactory’s CPU sales. In comparison, AMD’s first- and second-place chips, Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Ryzen 7 5700X3D, sold 190 and 80 units, respectively. The share of AMD motherboards sales in the store increased from 88.65% to 93.75%.
New Intel processors, including Core Ultra 9 285K, showed regression in productivity in gaming, and the market seems to have noticed this fact. Recently, 285K has been out of stock in most US retail stores, the rest are there but showing negligible sales of a few units.
As he writes Tom’s Hardware, is «a disappointing Arrow Lake launch that can be forgotten in less than a week». Bad news for Intel, which is in crisis. The August earnings report shows a loss of $1.6 billion for one quarter. The company went through staff reduction and curtailing current efforts to build the plant. The irony is that he was planned in Magdeburg, Germany, and generously funded. Probably, the Germans, who were left with an almost abandoned unfinished plant worth $30 billion, are not thrilled with the idea of buying an Intel processor.