Intel has informed its customers that it plans to raise the prices on many of its CPUs and peripheral chip products later this year, and in some cases, the price increases may reach more than 20%.

As reported by Nikkei Asia, the products impacted by these price hikes look to be such flagship items as Intel's central processing units for servers and computers and "chips for Wi-Fi and other connectivity."

According to executives, the decision to increase prices stems from the "surging costs for production and materials," and the amount that the prices will be increased will vary by product. The price changes will range from a "minimal single-digit increase" to "more than 10% and 20%."

This move is also timed with an inflation surge around the world that has "clouded the outlook for consumer spending." The U.S. in particular has seen consumer prices rise 9.1% in June, which set a 40-year record.

As reported by Gartner, 2022 has also seen a decline in PC shipments due to "geopolitical, economic, and supply chain challenges impacting all regional markets." This accounted for the sharpest decline in nine years.

“The decline we saw in the first quarter of 2022 has accelerated in the second quarter, driven by the ongoing geopolitical instability caused by the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, inflationary pressure on spending, and a steep downturn in demand for Chromebooks,” said Mikako Kitagawa, research director at Gartner.

“Supply chain disruptions also continued, but the major cause of PC delivery delays changed from component shortages to logistics disruptions. Enterprise buyers continued to experience longer PC delivery times than usual, but the lead times began to improve by the end of the second quarter, partially because key cities in China reopened in the middle of the quarter."

“To maintain profits as inflation increases costs, the PC industry is having to raise average selling prices (ASPs) despite weakening demand. The reduction in the mix of PCs from Chromebooks, which tend to have low price points, and shift to premium products also helped increase the average ASP. However, an increase in inventory, especially in the consumer channel, could cause an ASP decline as vendors will try to lower inventory.”

These comments follow Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger saying in May that he anticipates that the ongoing chip shortage will remain an issue into 2024.

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Intel has informed its customers that it plans to raise the prices on many of its CPUs and peripheral chip products later this year, and in some cases, the price increases may reach more than 20%.

As reported by Nikkei Asia, the products impacted by these price hikes look to be such flagship items as Intel's central processing units for servers and computers and "chips for Wi-Fi and other connectivity."

According to executives, the decision to increase prices stems from the "surging costs for production and materials," and the amount that the prices will be increased will vary by product. The price changes will range from a "minimal single-digit increase" to "more than 10% and 20%."

This move is also timed with an inflation surge around the world that has "clouded the outlook for consumer spending." The U.S. in particular has seen consumer prices rise 9.1% in June, which set a 40-year record.

As reported by Gartner, 2022 has also seen a decline in PC shipments due to "geopolitical, economic, and supply chain challenges impacting all regional markets." This accounted for the sharpest decline in nine years.

“The decline we saw in the first quarter of 2022 has accelerated in the second quarter, driven by the ongoing geopolitical instability caused by the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, inflationary pressure on spending, and a steep downturn in demand for Chromebooks,” said Mikako Kitagawa, research director at Gartner.

“Supply chain disruptions also continued, but the major cause of PC delivery delays changed from component shortages to logistics disruptions. Enterprise buyers continued to experience longer PC delivery times than usual, but the lead times began to improve by the end of the second quarter, partially because key cities in China reopened in the middle of the quarter."

“To maintain profits as inflation increases costs, the PC industry is having to raise average selling prices (ASPs) despite weakening demand. The reduction in the mix of PCs from Chromebooks, which tend to have low price points, and shift to premium products also helped increase the average ASP. However, an increase in inventory, especially in the consumer channel, could cause an ASP decline as vendors will try to lower inventory.”

These comments follow Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger saying in May that he anticipates that the ongoing chip shortage will remain an issue into 2024.

Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com.

Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Spoiler Warning: This interview contains major spoilers for Ms. Marvel Season 1

After more than 15 years with the MCU, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has gotten quite good at keeping information compartmentalized. So when it came time for Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah to shoot the now famous moment in which Kamala Khan is seemingly revealed to be a mutant – complete with the familiar jingle from the classic X-Men cartoon – they had to do it with next to no context.

“Yeah, so when we read the scene, the script, we had a bunch of questions which were not answered,” El Arbi says. “It was just you are tasked to shoot this, and put the music on it, and that's that. Basically, that's the only information we got.”

In other words, series director Bilall Fallah says, they will be discovering the true consequences of Kamala Khan’s unique genetics along with everyone else.

“We only know the scene that's now in the finale. It's a big honor obviously to have that, and to have that iconic song there, the little piece of the soundtrack, but that's that. We will have to discover it,” Fallah says.

It was a familiar gambit for the MCU; not as heavy-handed as Loki, maybe, which had to give over what amounted to its entire finale to introducing a major new villain, but no less conspicuous. It worked, too. The day that the Ms. Marvel finale landed on Disney Plus, social media lit up with reactions to the carefully placed musical cue and the subsequent cameo by Brie Larson, who abruptly popped into Kamala’s bedroom in a scene shot by The Marvels’ director Nia DaCosta.

“That scene is actually directed by Nia DaCosta, because she was shooting the Marvels with Brie and [Iman Vellani], obviously. Same thing, she didn't really know that that scene needed to be for our show, and we didn't know that that scene was going to be made, so we discovered it when we were calibrating the episodes,” Fallah says. “[Feige] didn't give any information to Nia, and didn't give any information to us. He just said, ‘Shoot this.’ But I assume that's what places, and who knows where Kamala is now, somewhere in that universe.”

Ms. Marvel's episode count was a "luxury"

The reveals capped off Ms. Marvel Season 1, which occasionally staggered under the weight of its multiple threads, but was otherwise a stylish and energizing take on the typical Marvel origin story, undergirded by family drama and the sweep of history. Our review praised it for its “bold palette and striking visuals,” saying that it “never loses its sense of wonder.”

Its charming coming of age story held special meaning for many Indian and Pakistani viewers, who praised little moments like Kamala’s best friend Nakia losing her shoes at the local mosque, to which a passerby remarks, “The mosque shoe thief has struck again.”

Calling it "cultural representation wrapped in bubblegum and pathos," Fanbyte’s Imran Khan wrote, “It’s not just Ms. Marvel is a more personal story with smaller stakes, it’s not just that I happen to share a name and a culture with the protagonist Kamala Khan, it’s that someone took a look at what it would mean to be a Muslim superhero in the modern age and tried to actually represent that culture well in a major TV show.”

It winds up encompassing a huge swath of the Muslim experience within the framework of a superhero origin story: not just the fear of having the FBI show up at a mosque, but more joyful events like the wedding of Kamala’s brother as well as the bloody history of the India - Pakistan partition. Ms. Marvel’s huge scope led to criticism that Marvel’s six episode structure was stifling, despite it being more than three times longer than the origin stories of yesteryear.

“Usually, we are mostly experiencing films, and movies are just two hours. In this case, we had the luxury of having six hours, and obviously, if you give us eight, we'll do more. You give us 12, we'll do more,” El Arbi says.

“But I think that what was cool about it is that there were obviously a lot of threads, a lot of plots that you want to put in it, but that makes sure that there's a high level of energy, and that's what we always try to do when we have a fast-paced kind of show where a lot of things happen. Here and there, sometimes we take our time to really go zero in more on the character, and let it breathe a little bit. But I think that overall, the show is pretty energetic, and I think that's because we squeezed it all in those six episodes.”

As for the most difficult story thread to pack in, El Arbi says that it was “obviously” the journey to Pakistan in the show’s fourth and fifth episodes, which shifts the setting from New Jersey to Karachi with a spot of time travel for good measure.
“Somehow, that on its own is already a season, you would say. You could do six episodes of that. It was a pretty big challenge to all of a sudden stop the New Jersey storyline, we would say, go to Pakistan, and then go back. But I think the writers and the producers managed to do that very well.”

Ms. Marvel's emotional finale and the future

In the end, though, Ms. Marvel is able to bring it all together with an exciting, emotional finale in which Kamala finds both her name and her costume thanks to her family. The scene in which Kamala’s father, Yusuf, points out that her name means “wonder” or “marvel” in Urdu was singled out for special praise, with Fallah calling it “one of the most powerful scenes in the whole show.”

“While it's a very simple scene – you have of course all the big action sequences that's really fun to do – you have this very intimate father daughter moment that reminds me so much about my relationship with my parents,” Fallah says.

Looking ahead, Kamala is set to return in The Marvels, which was set up nicely with Captain Marvel’s sudden appearance at the end of Ms. Marvel (and Kamala’s disappearance). Fallah admits that he would love to make a Ms. Marvel movie himself. “That would be super cool, and see her family and friends, because we believe that her real superpower is all her friends, and family, and her community. If we can explore more of that world, it would be a big honor.”

There’s also plenty of material to mine from the comics since at the end of the day Ms. Marvel is still an MCU show. Fallah says that “there’s much more we can do with Kamala Khan,” including exploring her powers.

“She has that big dog,” El Ardi says, referring to Lockjaw, the enormous bulldog with the power of inter-dimensional teleportation. “If there's another season or a movie, the big dog is going to have to be a big character in it.”

Looking back on how the first season turned out, El Ardi and Fallah can be satisfied with successfully establishing Ms. Marvel as a rising heroine in the MCU while potentially turning Iman Vellani into a star. What’s more, they told a sweeping story that’s rarely been seen on American television – and in a superhero show to boot.

“It's just such a beautiful experience that we are able to tell this story, that Marvel is creating this story, and seeing that a lot of people get inspired, a lot of Muslim women get inspired,” El Arbi says. “Hopefully, it will open a lot of doors, and hopefully more and more of these kind of stories will be told onscreen. That's my hope, and I’m just proud that we could have done this in the Marvel universe.”

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Send her a DM at @the_katbot.

Spoiler Warning: This interview contains major spoilers for Ms. Marvel Season 1

After more than 15 years with the MCU, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has gotten quite good at keeping information compartmentalized. So when it came time for Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah to shoot the now famous moment in which Kamala Khan is seemingly revealed to be a mutant – complete with the familiar jingle from the classic X-Men cartoon – they had to do it with next to no context.

“Yeah, so when we read the scene, the script, we had a bunch of questions which were not answered,” El Arbi says. “It was just you are tasked to shoot this, and put the music on it, and that's that. Basically, that's the only information we got.”

In other words, series director Bilall Fallah says, they will be discovering the true consequences of Kamala Khan’s unique genetics along with everyone else.

“We only know the scene that's now in the finale. It's a big honor obviously to have that, and to have that iconic song there, the little piece of the soundtrack, but that's that. We will have to discover it,” Fallah says.

It was a familiar gambit for the MCU; not as heavy-handed as Loki, maybe, which had to give over what amounted to its entire finale to introducing a major new villain, but no less conspicuous. It worked, too. The day that the Ms. Marvel finale landed on Disney Plus, social media lit up with reactions to the carefully placed musical cue and the subsequent cameo by Brie Larson, who abruptly popped into Kamala’s bedroom in a scene shot by The Marvels’ director Nia DaCosta.

“That scene is actually directed by Nia DaCosta, because she was shooting the Marvels with Brie and [Iman Vellani], obviously. Same thing, she didn't really know that that scene needed to be for our show, and we didn't know that that scene was going to be made, so we discovered it when we were calibrating the episodes,” Fallah says. “[Feige] didn't give any information to Nia, and didn't give any information to us. He just said, ‘Shoot this.’ But I assume that's what places, and who knows where Kamala is now, somewhere in that universe.”

Ms. Marvel's episode count was a "luxury"

The reveals capped off Ms. Marvel Season 1, which occasionally staggered under the weight of its multiple threads, but was otherwise a stylish and energizing take on the typical Marvel origin story, undergirded by family drama and the sweep of history. Our review praised it for its “bold palette and striking visuals,” saying that it “never loses its sense of wonder.”

Its charming coming of age story held special meaning for many Indian and Pakistani viewers, who praised little moments like Kamala’s best friend Nakia losing her shoes at the local mosque, to which a passerby remarks, “The mosque shoe thief has struck again.”

Calling it "cultural representation wrapped in bubblegum and pathos," Fanbyte’s Imran Khan wrote, “It’s not just Ms. Marvel is a more personal story with smaller stakes, it’s not just that I happen to share a name and a culture with the protagonist Kamala Khan, it’s that someone took a look at what it would mean to be a Muslim superhero in the modern age and tried to actually represent that culture well in a major TV show.”

It winds up encompassing a huge swath of the Muslim experience within the framework of a superhero origin story: not just the fear of having the FBI show up at a mosque, but more joyful events like the wedding of Kamala’s brother as well as the bloody history of the India - Pakistan partition. Ms. Marvel’s huge scope led to criticism that Marvel’s six episode structure was stifling, despite it being more than three times longer than the origin stories of yesteryear.

“Usually, we are mostly experiencing films, and movies are just two hours. In this case, we had the luxury of having six hours, and obviously, if you give us eight, we'll do more. You give us 12, we'll do more,” El Arbi says.

“But I think that what was cool about it is that there were obviously a lot of threads, a lot of plots that you want to put in it, but that makes sure that there's a high level of energy, and that's what we always try to do when we have a fast-paced kind of show where a lot of things happen. Here and there, sometimes we take our time to really go zero in more on the character, and let it breathe a little bit. But I think that overall, the show is pretty energetic, and I think that's because we squeezed it all in those six episodes.”

As for the most difficult story thread to pack in, El Arbi says that it was “obviously” the journey to Pakistan in the show’s fourth and fifth episodes, which shifts the setting from New Jersey to Karachi with a spot of time travel for good measure.
“Somehow, that on its own is already a season, you would say. You could do six episodes of that. It was a pretty big challenge to all of a sudden stop the New Jersey storyline, we would say, go to Pakistan, and then go back. But I think the writers and the producers managed to do that very well.”

Ms. Marvel's emotional finale and the future

In the end, though, Ms. Marvel is able to bring it all together with an exciting, emotional finale in which Kamala finds both her name and her costume thanks to her family. The scene in which Kamala’s father, Yusuf, points out that her name means “wonder” or “marvel” in Urdu was singled out for special praise, with Fallah calling it “one of the most powerful scenes in the whole show.”

“While it's a very simple scene – you have of course all the big action sequences that's really fun to do – you have this very intimate father daughter moment that reminds me so much about my relationship with my parents,” Fallah says.

Looking ahead, Kamala is set to return in The Marvels, which was set up nicely with Captain Marvel’s sudden appearance at the end of Ms. Marvel (and Kamala’s disappearance). Fallah admits that he would love to make a Ms. Marvel movie himself. “That would be super cool, and see her family and friends, because we believe that her real superpower is all her friends, and family, and her community. If we can explore more of that world, it would be a big honor.”

There’s also plenty of material to mine from the comics since at the end of the day Ms. Marvel is still an MCU show. Fallah says that “there’s much more we can do with Kamala Khan,” including exploring her powers.

“She has that big dog,” El Ardi says, referring to Lockjaw, the enormous bulldog with the power of inter-dimensional teleportation. “If there's another season or a movie, the big dog is going to have to be a big character in it.”

Looking back on how the first season turned out, El Ardi and Fallah can be satisfied with successfully establishing Ms. Marvel as a rising heroine in the MCU while potentially turning Iman Vellani into a star. What’s more, they told a sweeping story that’s rarely been seen on American television – and in a superhero show to boot.

“It's just such a beautiful experience that we are able to tell this story, that Marvel is creating this story, and seeing that a lot of people get inspired, a lot of Muslim women get inspired,” El Arbi says. “Hopefully, it will open a lot of doors, and hopefully more and more of these kind of stories will be told onscreen. That's my hope, and I’m just proud that we could have done this in the Marvel universe.”

Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Send her a DM at @the_katbot.

Spider-Man: No Way Home is now available to stream, but the movie isn't joining the avalanche of Marvel content available on Disney Plus. Rather, you can stream the movie exclusively on Starz. The movie will be available on the platform for the next 18 months as part of an exclusive streaming deal.

Back in February, we first learned that Starz would be the first streaming service for No Way Home, and that the film would become streamable, "sometime over the next six months." Don't expect this to be the norm for Spidey going forward, though. Future Spider-Man films will appear on Netflix thanks to a contract between Netflix and Sony Pictures. The contract reportedly begins with Sony's 2022 film slate, and No Way Home released just at the tail end of 2021.

Spider-Man: No Way Home was a huge hit last year, becoming Sony Pictures' highest-grossing movie ever. We called No Way Home great in our review, saying, "Though it struggles with some tired superhero tropes, everything else about it will leave fans grinning ear-to-ear."

If you want to watch No Way Home on the big screen again, the movie is coming back to theaters in the US and Canada on September 2 with a new version called Spider-Man: No Way Home - The More Fun Version. And, if you're planning a binge watch of the entire series, check out how to watch the Spider-Man movies in order.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

Spider-Man: No Way Home is now available to stream, but the movie isn't joining the avalanche of Marvel content available on Disney Plus. Rather, you can stream the movie exclusively on Starz. The movie will be available on the platform for the next 18 months as part of an exclusive streaming deal.

Back in February, we first learned that Starz would be the first streaming service for No Way Home, and that the film would become streamable, "sometime over the next six months." Don't expect this to be the norm for Spidey going forward, though. Future Spider-Man films will appear on Netflix thanks to a contract between Netflix and Sony Pictures. The contract reportedly begins with Sony's 2022 film slate, and No Way Home released just at the tail end of 2021.

Spider-Man: No Way Home was a huge hit last year, becoming Sony Pictures' highest-grossing movie ever. We called No Way Home great in our review, saying, "Though it struggles with some tired superhero tropes, everything else about it will leave fans grinning ear-to-ear."

If you want to watch No Way Home on the big screen again, the movie is coming back to theaters in the US and Canada on September 2 with a new version called Spider-Man: No Way Home - The More Fun Version. And, if you're planning a binge watch of the entire series, check out how to watch the Spider-Man movies in order.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

In a major change to its roadmap, Microsoft is returning to its three-year plan for new Windows upgrades. The new plan means we might see Windows 12 as early as 2024.

According to a report by Windows Central, Microsoft's new roadmap means new versions of Windows will ship every three years.

In the past, Microsoft has also taken its time with new versions of the operating system — Windows 10 was released in 2015, and Windows 11 wasn't released until six years after in 2021. During this time, Microsoft shifted away from its initial three-year plan and instead focused on delivering consistent updates to Windows 10.

Its new plan also means that new features for existing Windows versions will ship more often. As detailed by Windows Central, starting with Windows 11 version 22H2, Microsoft will begin rolling out major updates for Windows 11 up to four times a year through its "Moments" program. This means more frequent updates for Windows — typically, Microsoft has only shipped updates once per year.

Windows 11, which released last year, introduced plenty of new features like Auto HDR gaming and snap layouts. IGN gave Windows 11 a 7/10 in our review of the operating system, praising its visual improvements but noting that there wasn't much more to push users to upgrade.

Amelia Zollner is a freelance writer at IGN who loves all things indie and Nintendo. Outside of IGN, they've contributed to sites like Polygon and Rock Paper Shotgun. Find them on Twitter: @ameliazollner.

In a major change to its roadmap, Microsoft is returning to its three-year plan for new Windows upgrades. The new plan means we might see Windows 12 as early as 2024.

According to a report by Windows Central, Microsoft's new roadmap means new versions of Windows will ship every three years.

In the past, Microsoft has also taken its time with new versions of the operating system — Windows 10 was released in 2015, and Windows 11 wasn't released until six years after in 2021. During this time, Microsoft shifted away from its initial three-year plan and instead focused on delivering consistent updates to Windows 10.

Its new plan also means that new features for existing Windows versions will ship more often. As detailed by Windows Central, starting with Windows 11 version 22H2, Microsoft will begin rolling out major updates for Windows 11 up to four times a year through its "Moments" program. This means more frequent updates for Windows — typically, Microsoft has only shipped updates once per year.

Windows 11, which released last year, introduced plenty of new features like Auto HDR gaming and snap layouts. IGN gave Windows 11 a 7/10 in our review of the operating system, praising its visual improvements but noting that there wasn't much more to push users to upgrade.

Amelia Zollner is a freelance writer at IGN who loves all things indie and Nintendo. Outside of IGN, they've contributed to sites like Polygon and Rock Paper Shotgun. Find them on Twitter: @ameliazollner.

It looks as though Chris Pratt won’t be the next Indiana Jones after all. Appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the 43-year-old actor played down rumors that he would be taking over from Harrison Ford after the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones film.

“I don’t even know who Steven Spielberg is,” he quipped. “Who? Steven Who? No, aren’t they doing Indiana Jones with Harrison Ford?”

Indiana Jones 5 will see Harrison Ford’s whip-cracking archaeologist return for another adventure. First announced back in 2016, the film has been in production ever since.

But Pratt is somewhat mistaken about Spielberg’s involvement. Originally set to direct the Indy sequel, he since exited the project and was replaced by Logan director, James Mangold. Although Indiana Jones 5 will likely be Harrison Ford’s last outing as the iconic adventurer, there’s no official word on whether anyone will replace him.

However, we do know that Phoebe Waller-Bridge has joined the cast, alongside Mads Mikkelsen.

“All I know is I once saw a quote from Harrison Ford and I don’t even know if it was really him, but it was enough to scare me, that was like, ‘When I die, Indiana Jones dies.’ And I’m like, am I gonna get haunted by the ghost of Harrison Ford one day when he dies if I play…?”

Admittedly, the thought of Harrison Ford appearing out of nowhere like a vengeful Ark of the Covenant spirit is somewhat amusing… but I can see why Pratt isn’t so keen.

Still, Pratt has proven to be a popular choice for an eventual Indiana Jones reboot, despite the fact that Disney is yet to announce any further plans for the franchise beyond the upcoming sequel. That said, he was rumored for the role back in 2015… and many fans still think he’s the perfect choice to take over the role.

Whether or not Indiana Jones will continue raiding tombs after Harrison Ford has hung up his fedora remains to be seen. But I can think of worse actors to play him.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

It looks as though Chris Pratt won’t be the next Indiana Jones after all. Appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the 43-year-old actor played down rumors that he would be taking over from Harrison Ford after the upcoming fifth Indiana Jones film.

“I don’t even know who Steven Spielberg is,” he quipped. “Who? Steven Who? No, aren’t they doing Indiana Jones with Harrison Ford?”

Indiana Jones 5 will see Harrison Ford’s whip-cracking archaeologist return for another adventure. First announced back in 2016, the film has been in production ever since.

But Pratt is somewhat mistaken about Spielberg’s involvement. Originally set to direct the Indy sequel, he since exited the project and was replaced by Logan director, James Mangold. Although Indiana Jones 5 will likely be Harrison Ford’s last outing as the iconic adventurer, there’s no official word on whether anyone will replace him.

However, we do know that Phoebe Waller-Bridge has joined the cast, alongside Mads Mikkelsen.

“All I know is I once saw a quote from Harrison Ford and I don’t even know if it was really him, but it was enough to scare me, that was like, ‘When I die, Indiana Jones dies.’ And I’m like, am I gonna get haunted by the ghost of Harrison Ford one day when he dies if I play…?”

Admittedly, the thought of Harrison Ford appearing out of nowhere like a vengeful Ark of the Covenant spirit is somewhat amusing… but I can see why Pratt isn’t so keen.

Still, Pratt has proven to be a popular choice for an eventual Indiana Jones reboot, despite the fact that Disney is yet to announce any further plans for the franchise beyond the upcoming sequel. That said, he was rumored for the role back in 2015… and many fans still think he’s the perfect choice to take over the role.

Whether or not Indiana Jones will continue raiding tombs after Harrison Ford has hung up his fedora remains to be seen. But I can think of worse actors to play him.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.