5500 is 199$ "Price Street", MSRP is dead for a long time especially for TSMC products.
Re:AMD Fires Back with 7 New Chips
by BeefWellington on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @11:02AM
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12100f is $178 right now at Newegg (shipped by third party; Newegg has none):
https://www.newegg.com/intel-core-i3-12100f-core-i3-12th-gen...
118 usd after VAT here in EU
i3-12100f is a 100$ 4 core chip, which should line up with Ryzen 3 4100 at $100 or possibly Ryzen 5 4500 at $129.