Intel's doing some spring cleaning on its branding structure, adding new Cores on the block. Joining the high-level
Core i7 series will be the mid range Core i5 in the coming months and the lower-end Core i3's early next year. To be more specific, the Lynnfield chipsets will be either i5 or i7 depending on the feature set,
Clarkfield mobile chips will be i7, and the 32nm Arrandale will at least at first fall under i3. Of course, with the new gang in town, some older monikers will be going wayside, and getting the slow fade out are
Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, and
Centrino, the latter being eventually marginalized for WiMAX and WiFi products only. Making the cut are Celeron, Pentium, and the ever-resilient Atom names. We're a bit sad to know there will never be a Core 2 Dodeca, but hey, it's only a name, right?. Hit up the read link for more details, including a video interview with Intel's VP of Marketing Deborah Conrad.
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posted June 17th 2009 8:09PM
Core 2 Quad 2.4ghz - that is a name you can look at n know what it is, Quad is four, so it has four cores, 2.4ghz, well thats how good it is, 2.6 is higher and must be better.
Core i5 - Well 5 is a number so it has 5 cores yeah?, or 5ghz, or wtf.
Also in a year the i7 will be "average, so it should be i5, but it'll still have the i7 moniker. so unless they make i9 to compensate then i11 then re-brand again.
i11 - NO!
it will be i-2-7
like they just added 2 after core duos got old.
I just wish they would completely drop the Celeron branding (maybe badge the new bargain basement processors the i1)
i1 would be called the Intel Cyclops
IntelGood, IntelBetter, IntelBest.
LONG LIVE THE Q6600!
so maybe i3 is gonna be dual core, i5 quad core, and i7 six-core processors of the same architecture? why not use names like i2, i4, i6, i8?
That would be just to easy.
It would be nice if they'd merge the Pentium and Celeron brands, and give it the same set of codes (i3, i5, i7). Probably would be best to call it Celeron, given that that has always been Intel's budget brand.
Since they are going the BMW route, I just wish they'd release an ///M powered core i3 that can smack the big boys. An Mi3 would be friggin awesome.
I think Intel should simplify their CPU branding even more. They should have just sticked with the duo branding it's much more clearer.
Anyways, here is my suggestion:
1. Intel core solo (ditch the pentium, centrino, and celeron)
2. Stick with Atom for netbooks
2. Intel core duo or core quad or core whatever number there is for mainstream to performance laptop and desktop
3. I7 should be the so called "extreme edition" processors.
Except "Extreme Edition" is used to denote unlocked multiplier products
Intel should start streamlining ALL its product category. they should have done so a decade or more ago. Pentium is at least 15 years old... in tech terms that's like 200 years
These processor namings are getting ridiculous. Add on to those names with 4 digit numbers. I missed the good ol days where 200MHz > 100MHz > 66MHz and so son. Now we have the question of "Is Q8400 faster/slower than E8600? How about the T8300, P9500... *head spinning*."
The letter out in front means something, at least in the Xeon series it does. I would assume Q is quad, E is entry or something like that.
The numbers were never made to be compared across series, it's so you can compare within a series.
It's no longer all about the MHz with varying sizes of cache and architecture differences.
They could at least drop the Celeron brand and then rename it to Pentium.
It will always be i3, i5, i7. Just, every year, what that entails, will be the very best they have. Quad Core is not being re-branded as Pentium, but is part of the new naming, and, as time goes on, will get lower (e.g., in 4 years it may be the technology within new computers with i3).