Intel to drop the “I” moniker in upcoming CPU rebrand

Re:Intel to drop the “I” moniker in upcoming CPU rebrand by NBJack on Monday May 01, 2023 @09:55PM (#35782257)

Let's not forget what they started calling 'gold', which in many cases is just Celeron+. But don't confuse that with 'silver', designed for ultralight computing.

Honestly, I'm somewhat convinced that Intel did this scheme intentionally to sell older hardware (hey this has an i5/'gold' too and it's slightly cheaper!), but perhaps it backfired: folks who already have an iX think that new fancy iX laptop isn't worth it.

Here's hoping there's a tell-all book in a few years with some insight.

In the grand scheme of things, it's still better than the Microsoft Xbox naming convention.

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Re:Intel to drop the “I” moniker in upcoming CPU rebrand by toast0 on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:38PM (#35783058)

> Let's not forget what they started calling 'gold', which in many cases is just Celeron+. But don't confuse that with 'silver', designed for ultralight computing.

Both Gold and Celeron don't really mean anything. Celeron is often available with the same architecture as the other brands, often with less cores, maybe less speed, maybe some features disabled, but especially if you're comparing across architectures, the brand isn't important, the details are.

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