Originally Posted by
wco81
Intel is going to charge a premium for Haswell apparently, with prices much higher than the Ivy Bridge processors they're replacing.
Hasn't shown up in the desktop chip pricing, which is pretty much dead identical to the Ivy Bridge chips they were replacing.
Laptop chip pricing is a much more opaque art and will be clearer in a month or two, and the very-low-power tablet ones are essentially a new market with nothing to compare to except Atoms.
eta: from those early laptops announced at Computex for which price is already available -- not many -- it does not sound like the machines with the quad core i7 Haswell chips are being priced any higher than the Ivy Bridge-based models they're replacing were when introduced last year, and in some cases they're being priced competitively with the models they're replacing (despite the latter being a year old and at the end of their lifecycle.) Obviously a very small sample size so far.