The Haswell central processing units will be launched next month

May 23, 2013 13:39 GMT  ·  By

It is true that Intel won't officially introduce the Haswell series of central processing units, the fourth generation Core series, before Computex Taipei, which will take place between June 4 and 8.

That doesn't mean the chips aren't already out though, or at least up for pre-order in certain regions. We've already seen them in China, among other places.

Now, the Core i7-4770 and i7-4770K chips have surfaced again, this time on eBay. Or at least they did briefly.

The auction for the former ended early, and the chip wasn't sold, while the latter should still be there.

The starting bid was of $990 / €990, but offers were at $1,289 / €1,289 at the time of this blog's posting.

Curiously, other online stores where the chips are actually up for order ask for less money than that.