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If you already have gray hair, you will remember how Intel made a very interesting leap in performance in 2008 in processors. So much so that the brand changed the name of its processors to the Core range, with that distinctive i that we still have. A lot has happened from that, and it seems that, once again, Intel has to renew itself so as not to die. So, taking advantage of the move to chiplets and its new lithographic processes, the brand has decided that it is time to change. This will be the new names of its processors: Intel Core and Intel Core Ultra.
Nehalem architecture arrived with its 45nm and Intel left the competition behind. The leap in performance was vast, its processors introduced a large number of improvements to the architecture and laid the foundations for what we have today. Well, in less than a month this will be over to open up a new generation of processors to the world, and just like AMD did with Ryzen, Intel believes what it has to offer is revolutionary.
Intel wants to downplay the brand after 15 years
The largest in 15 years, on the way to two decades and new architectures and manufacturing processes. The key is to leave DUB behind and get into EUV and High-NA EUV thanks to ASML scanners. In addition, Intel will leave monolithic chips behind and belatedly to make the leap to the new generation of chiplets, thus competing with AMD on equal terms.
It is a generational change as we see, a change of concept and philosophy that will bring from RibbonFETgoing through PowerVia, until 3D Fovers.
It’s the new Intel, and as such, it requires new trade names. What is in front of us then?
Well, in principle, that of “the 13th generation” and its variants is over. That is to say, it will not be the 13th Generation Intel Core i9-13900KS, as we have now, but it will simply go to Intel Core and Intel Core Ultra, but let’s be more specific before drawing conclusions.
Two ranges, two currents, the minor: Intel Core 3, Core 5 and Core 7
The i is over as we said, the processors will no longer be i3 or i5 or i7, but will be Core 3, Core 5 and Core 7. It’s not a huge change, but it breaks with all these years of simplifying things. In addition, this range represents the most common processors, the range and current of the normal user who does not intend to opt for pure performance, but for the balance and ratio of performance/consumption/price.
For this reason, this Intel Core range dispenses with the name Intel Core 9, and therefore, there will only be those named as such.
It will be that, the premium range of Intel, which also loses the i in the course and change. Here we will have three types of processors: Intel Core Ultra 5, Intel Core Ultra 7, and Intel Core Ultra 9. Everyone will get the best benefits within each market segment. Intel has called them “premium processors” as the slide shows.
As you have surely seen, there is no Intel Core 3 Ultra as such, just like there is no Intel Core 9 without more. It is the range segmentation that Intel has thought of, simplifying things more clearly, but there is more. And it is that in the details is the good.
On the first slide, and if you look at the top, the Intel Core will debut with Meteor Lake, that is, in just a few months within the range of laptops. On the other hand, with the Intel Core Ultra the brand specifies the 2H of 2023, but does not reference the architecture. What we can expect, it seems, since no full names have been shown, is something like Intel Core 3 1003Hin the case of Meteor Lake and laptops, or something like, Intel Core Ultra 9 14900Kin the case of Raptor Lake Refresh-S that will also arrive this year if all goes well.
Having said all this, what do you think of the new way of calling Intel processors? Are the blues right by simplifying everything? Will something similar to the Xeon arrive, which they confuse so much with their names in themselves? We keep reporting.
