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12th Gen Intel Core i9 CPUs are already being sold in China | SoyaCincau.com

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One seller in China claims to have gotten a hand on Intel's upcoming Core i9-12900K processor, and is selling them for over USD1,000 each.

upcoming lineup of desktop CPUs aren’t even launched yet, but that won’t stop some Chinese businesses selling them online. The 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900K, Team Blue’s upcoming high end desktop CPU, is already being sold online in China, albeit not in any official capacity.

The Intel Core i9-12900K processors being sold in China are actually qualification sample chips. For context, when Intel makes a new lineup of chips, you’ll sometimes hear of prototype chips found in the wild. These are typically either engineering samples or in this case qualification samples , which as the name suggests are pre-production units.

ES chips are made very early on in a processor’s development, and usually have much lower performance than retail CPUs while often needing some weird BIOS software hacks to get it to work. QS chips however tend to be almost 100% similar to production units, being the final prototype just before they launch the real deal. You’ll also often see both ES and QS versions of older chips being sold online at lower prices.

. That’s frankly way too much for a processor, even one that’s the highest on the stack. As a comparison, the 11th Gen Intel Core i9-11900k retails for USD539, while

 

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