News - Intel flatly denies that Celeron brand will be axed in 2011

[HEXUS]

Low-cost processors to be replaced by Atom and Pentium?

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[jim]

I wish they'd drop the Pentium instead.

It's far too confusing at the moment, with Celeron, Pentium, i3, i5 and i7 all competing with each other simultaneously.

[watercooled]

To make things simpler they should sack whatever imbecile thought the Core i3/5/7 naming system with no definitions to separate them was a good idea...

[MSIC]

I wish they'd drop the Pentium instead.

It's far too confusing at the moment, with Celeron, Pentium, i3, i5 and i7 all competing with each other simultaneously.

I agree, i'm not convinced that 'Pentium' is a valued brand that consumers seek out. I'd be far happier if they would simply made clear the level of cache on the CPU hand in hand with the clock speed, but perhaps that's too much to hope...

Eg: Speed = 1.4 Ghz
Turbo speed = 1.8 Ghz
Cores = 2
Threads = 4
Cache = 3 MB (i know they could go further in to detail with level blah blah, but it's a start)

This would make all of intels CPUs easily comparable. Then again, perhaps Intel doesnt want us as consumers to be able to do this.

On a related note, I recently picked up a new 11" laptop with a dual-core "Celeron" in it, and as someone with 15 yrs of PC building history the name alone made me shudder. Still, I applied to logical head to the fact that it was a CULV processor with 2 cores and 1 meg of cache, and in practice I can tell you that Win7 and pretty much all I need to use works a treat. In fact I feel that it's a real bargain, even at only 1.2 Ghz.

[cheesemp]

I never really look at names anymore anyway - far easier just to check benchmarks nowadays....

Also I've seen celerons laptops with more power than similar priced pentium laptops so the name is meanless anyway.

[Singh400]

Get rid of everything expect the iX naming scheme. And just have i2, i3, i5, and i7. Simples. Then the next gen would be named like j2, j3, j5 and j7 etc etc.

[lodore]

I agree with you Singh400
why did intel start at i3 and miss i4 and i6?

and why start at i and not a?

[jim]

Just sounds good, I guess.

It's all anybody seems to care about these days, making the systems easy to understand comes very far down on the list of priorities.

[baius]

Get rid of everything expect the iX naming scheme. And just have i2, i3, i5, and i7. Simples. Then the next gen would be named like j2, j3, j5 and j7 etc etc.

Think their next gen's will be i1x and i2x not jx and kx.

I like the idea of using i2 for Celeron/CULV, (and possibly i1 for Atom).