CPU price development?

[BlueBanana]

Since I'm still using a fairly old pc (3770 non k) for daily work and gaming and my pc is starting to show its age a bit, rather sooner than later I'll have to upgrade.
What worries me though are the CPU prices and if they continue to rise or not. 
As an example: 
Roughly a year ago a 8700k costs around 300€. Today it's somewhere around 400 to 430€.
At those prices I would have to settle with a Core i5 instead of an i7.  But since I'm using my pc for my daily work, hyperthreading would be a welcome addition. 
My question is:
Will the cpu prices continue to rise or will they stagnate or even fall a bit in the next couple of months?

[Princess Luna]

7 minutes ago, BlueBanana said:

Will the cpu prices continue to rise, or will they stagnate or even fall a bit in the next couple of months?

It's hard to really say, prices are likely to fall once Ryzen 2 hits the market as AMD is being very aggressive on its fight against Intel's monopoly offering on-pair performance for cheaper across the board reason why I'd definitely wait it's release before replacing the i7 3770.

 

However Intel chips may keep rising in price since they are trying to move their manufacturing to 10nm at the same time the only stuff that 'just works' is still 14nm, moving production takes a lot of time and effort meaning there was a reduction of availability and manufacturing of 14nm already... so much that even Pentium and Celeron line ups were shifted away from Intel themselves to Samsung.

 

This means 14nm Intel chips will either stagnate or increase in price until they finally release Ice Lake 10nm processors sometime by the end of this year to compete with Ryzen 2 7nm processors.

[RAM555789]

I think it will be like Nvidia GPUs. We will only see a drop after they release the next Intel chip.

[BlueBanana]

1 hour ago, RAM555789 said:

I think it will be like Nvidia GPUs. We will only see a drop after they release the next Intel chip.

the odd thing is, that the prices of the 8700k still rose  after the release of the 9700k. Prices (over here) of the 8700k and the 9700k are almost the same (+/- 10€).
I would have thought that with the release of a new generation the old ones get a bit cheaper 

[RAM555789]

7 hours ago, BlueBanana said:

the odd thing is, that the prices of the 8700k still rose  after the release of the 9700k. Prices (over here) of the 8700k and the 9700k are almost the same (+/- 10€).
I would have thought that with the release of a new generation the old ones get a bit cheaper 

The i9 was targeting more towards workstations and was a response to Threadripper not a reinnovation of 8th gen chips.