Intel Is Renaming Their CPU Names For The First Time In 15 Years

Intel Is Renaming Their CPU Names For The First Time In 15 Years

Goodbye Core i5, hello Core Ultra 5?

Intel’s Core i3/i5/i7 (and later Core i9) are just about the most ubiquitous names in the PC industry since its inception back in late 2008 with the first-generation “Nehalem” processors such as Core i7-920. Since then, there has been 13 generations that carries the same name, but that is set to end as Intel has confirmed a new naming system will replace the current one moving forward, starting with the Meteor Lake processors.

The new naming is first discovered in the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database with the CPU labeled as “Intel Core Ultra 5 1003H”. This chip is supposedly belonging to the upcoming Meteor Lake-P family of processors, and it contains an unusual number of cores – 14 cores and 18 threads to be exact. There’s a few possible pair of number combinations in theory, but given that E-cores so far comes exclusively in the form of 4-core clusters (meaning, they come multiples of 4 E-cores per chip), another theory is the inclusion of two new “SoC cores” aside from P and E-cores (which means 4P+8E+2SoC).

Meanwhile, Bernard Fernandes – Director of Global Communications at Intel Corporation has came forward and confirmed that Intel is indeed changing its product naming scheme starting with Meteor Lake. We know that Intel is likely refreshing current Raptor Lake chips – which could be using “14th Gen” naming and will be the final chips to use this decade-long naming convention.

Source: Videocardz (1, 2)

Pokdepinion: Bold move, given how ingrained Core i3/i5/i7 has been in people’s minds over the years.