Goodbye Core i3, i5, i7 and i9: Intel changes the name of its processors
After many years, Intel decided to change the nomenclature of its range of processors. Confirmation came from Bernard Fernandes, Director of Global Communications at Intel Corporation. According to the person in charge of the company, the rumors of the last few days were correct.
The American company is thus preparing to reform the Core i3, i5, i7 and i9 brands already with the launch of the new generation of CPUs, characterized by the code name Meteor Lake, which will be Intel’s 14th generation Core processors.
The preview provided by Intel’s communications manager confirms last week’s rumours. With the new generation of processors, Intel will implement changes in their naming system. For the time being, the manager has not provided information about the new system used by the company to identify its CPUs. Over the “coming weeks”, however, the first news on the subject will arrive.
In recent days, a benchmark of Ashes of the Singularity (a title often used to evaluate CPU performance in games) revealed the existence of a mysterious Intel Core Ultra 5 1003H processor. The introduction of the Ultra name thus represents one of the possible novelties for the naming system that Intel will use for its range of processors, starting with the 14th generation of Intel Cores, represented by the new Meteor Lake.
The hypotheses on the table are different. Intel could retire the i3, i5, i7 and i9 brands, currently used to identify both desktop processors and the rich range of notebook processors. Intel could therefore follow Apple’s lead by labeling its high-end processors with names like Pro, Max and Ultra.
The risk, of course, is to unnecessarily complicate an already heavily circumvented system. The Intel range, in fact, is very rich. Each generation of Intel Core processors is divided into several product families with substantial differences between one CPU and another that sometimes translates into processors with very similar acronyms and a single digit difference. A Core i7 notebook can have an i7 H-series processor or an i7 U-series processor with huge differences in performance.
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