Intel said to be readying Core i9 CPUs with 6, 8, 10 and 12 cores

[Dashers]

This branding makes sense. Moving the enthusiast range on a different socket to it's own brand. It's a bit confusing currently that you can get an i7 on both mainstream and enthusiast sockets.

Bearing in mind that the i7 brand came into existence on the X58 platform with Nehalem. There was a reason for the i7 name (something to do with 7th genuine architecture mix up since they went back to pre-Netburst or something, can't remember exactly now), whereas the i5 and i3 were tagged on as afterthoughts in branding.

[qasdfdsaq]

If you took those bottom 2 off and they were all i7s then I would believe it, but as it is it just sounds like BS.

Xeon Silver/Gold/Platinum sounds like BS too but maybe Intel have decided to copy AMD's marketing tack of using nonsense names.

This branding makes sense. Moving the enthusiast range on a different socket to it's own brand. It's a bit confusing currently that you can get an i7 on both mainstream and enthusiast sockets.

This, arguably, does make some sense. While getting i7's on different sockets is hardly an issue (seeing as there are i7's in at least 5 different sockets/BGAs regardless) the fact that you'd get a later-released i7-x900 that was on an older architecture than an i7-x700 was confusing

Bearing in mind that the i7 brand came into existence on the X58 platform with Nehalem. There was a reason for the i7 name (something to do with 7th genuine architecture mix up since they went back to pre-Netburst or something, can't remember exactly now), whereas the i5 and i3 were tagged on as afterthoughts in branding.

Quite the opposite, the reason for the i7 name according to Intel when they released it was specifically because they had i5 and i3 planned right from the outset and wanted to distinguish the i7 as higher end:

The first products in this new family of processors, which will be in production in Q4 and feature a unique mix of performance and energy efficiency, will also carry a new identifier and be formally branded the Intel® Core™ i7 processor. Believe it or not, this new naming scheme should make it easier for PC buyers to decide which technology is right for them. The “i7” identifier is the first of several new identifiers to come as different Nehalem-based products launch over the next year.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080818...intels_new.php

[elites2012]

why are they suddenly pushing high end gaming with multi cores?? they where the ones who convinced companies that low end multicore processors where the "thing". i still laugh at intel fans who feel they got a "deal" on a supercharged 4core proc.

[kalniel]

why are they suddenly pushing high end gaming with multi cores??

Suddenly? Do you mean apart from i7-3930k/60/70X back in 2011, i7-4930/60 back in 2013, i7-5920/30/60 back in 2014, and i7-6800/50/6900/50 in 2016?

[ik9000]

Suddenly? Do you mean apart from i7-3930k/60/70X back in 2011, i7-4930/60 back in 2013, i7-5920/30/60 back in 2014, and i7-6800/50/6900/50 in 2016?

and the 980EX in 09/10?