{"id":1553833,"date":"2026-04-15T14:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/X6STiXDXvJrxXZFqBwGHqE"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:53:06","slug":"in-10-years-of-tracking-retail-cpu-sales-i-have-never-seen-such-a-steep-decline-says-one-tech-channel-after-staring-at-the-grim-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/in-10-years-of-tracking-retail-cpu-sales-i-have-never-seen-such-a-steep-decline-says-one-tech-channel-after-staring-at-the-grim-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"‘In 10 years of tracking retail CPU sales, I have never seen such a steep decline,’ says one tech channel after staring at the grim figures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anyone who does a lot of data analysis will know that the longer you collect data for, the easier it becomes to spot trends. Sometimes, though, a pattern is so stark that you don’t need to be a data expert to spot it, and in the case of German retailer Mindfactory, its CPU sales figures tell you everything you need to know about PCs right now.<\/p>\n

The numbers I’m about to show you come courtesy of YouTube channel TechEpiphany<\/a>, via its X account<\/a>, where it routinely collates and posts weekly sales numbers for CPUs, GPUs, and motherboards. The data mostly refers to Mindfactory, but TechEpiphany does similar tracking for Amazon and others.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, the above chart shows the number of AMD and Intel CPUs sold at the German store, starting week 3 of this year, up to week 15. In some cases, successive weeks have identical sales, but that’s because TechEpiphany has posted a value for a group of weeks, and I’ve taken the average weekly figure from that.<\/p>\n

When I first saw the numbers in raw form, it didn’t strike me as being particularly bad in any way, but once visualised in a graph, the drop in sales is pretty stark. So much so that it drove TechEpiphany to say<\/a>, “In 10 years of tracking retail CPU (and related) sales, I have never seen such a steep decline.”<\/p>\n

Now, I’m only showing you Mindfactory’s data, but I’m sure the tech tracker has other sources of data to make them make such a statement. Not that this will come as a surprise to any PC enthusiast who regularly checks out the prices of components or follows tech news, because no matter how great today’s CPUs, GPUs, and motherboards are, increasingly fewer people are considering doing a full upgrade.<\/p>\n

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