Intel calls it “a new brand for a new era”: after 15 years, the manufacturer is giving up the iconic designation Core i – new processors from the Meteor Lake generation are no longer called Core i7-14700H (fictitious name), but come as Core Ultra 5/7/9 or Core 3/5/7/9, without i in the name. The company has now confirmed previous rumours.
In the future, Core Ultra will be called the “most advanced client processors” from the premium segment. “Mainstream offerings” forego the Ultra. Notebooks with the Meteor Lake CPU generation will make a start next fall: the fastest models will appear as Core Ultra. With a chiplet structure and an integrated AI accelerator, Intel sees a change in its own processors. AMD also highlights the in-house “Ryzen AI” accelerators in the current mobile processors.
New logos for Intel’s processors, which you will find on notebooks starting in the fall.
For desktop PCs, this change is not expected until 2024. Only a new edition of the previous Core i-13000 CPUs with higher clock frequencies is to be released this year – according to our information under the name Core i-14000. The top desktop model this year would therefore still be called the Core i9-14900K.
Core i – Intel’s core brand since 2008
Intel presented the first Core i processors in November 2008: the Core i7-920, Core i7-940 and Core i7-965 XE as Extreme Edition, all from the Bloomfield family with four Nehalem computing cores. The processors replaced the Front Side Bus (FSB) with the Quick Path Interconnect (QPI), and the memory controller also migrated from the chipset Northbridge to the CPU. The CPUs on LGA1366 mainboards provided three DDR3 memory channels – a maximum of 24 GB of RAM could be used.
A second change concerns the generation designations. So far, Intel has consistently spoken of the umpteenth Core i generation, most recently of the 13th. From the next presentation, that will no longer happen: only the CPU names should refer to the generation, but it will no longer be explicitly so pronounced.
At the latest since the many rehashes of the Skylake architecture with numerous new editions, commonly also called refreshes, – from the Core i-6000 to Core i-10000 – this counting method has become obsolete.
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