I probably live in "some countries"
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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why would that only affect "some" countries
AMD Ryzen CPUs have reportedly seen over a 50% price increase in Japan, likely due to AI.
... CPU prices could reportedly increase as software developers shift toward running cloud-based AI-related applications locally.
Who tf is running ai models on cpus? The source seems to be a Chinese report by intel:
... The goal was to achieve a cumulative price increase of 30% based on 2025 prices, thereby recovering the investment in capacity expansion and meeting the return expectations of the capital market and investors...
... some users, especially software developers, are choosing to deploy AI-related applications locally, thus creating strong demand for AI PCs ... The core growth is concentrated in the high-end thin and light laptop and thin and light gaming laptop user groups...
So the reason AMD's desktop cpus suddenly got more expensive in Japan is because Intel is expecting an increase in ultrabook sales? I'm unsatisfied
The newer CPU generations come with cores optimized for this stuff (referred to as an NPU). It actually seems to work fairly well for the kind of model you'd run locally.
Barring that, a typical laptop dGPU will also work, although not super efficiently since they often don't exceed 8 GB of VRAM and thus can't run most models without partially offloading them to the CPU.
Of course a laptop with a dGPU and NPU cores will make the offloading less painful. So yeah, workable for most reasonably-sized models.
Models can split loads across a discrete GPU and CPU/RAM.
Its not as fast as if you can load it all in the GPU, but it gives you more options. Its been quite common for a long time.
Yeah, that's what I refer to with offloading. Depending on the model and runtime it might be a bit fiddly but it usually works fine.
Im apparently just bad at reading the whole message.
"Some countries" ≠ "Japan"
I don't know about that but f**king mini PCs here saw price increase around +200% here since last autumn.