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Intel has officially announced a renaming of its chip family, beginning with the upcoming 14th-Gen CPUs. Here’s a look at everything we’ve learned so far regarding Intel’s 14th-Gen Meteor Lake CPU family, which includes both leaked and officially confirmed information. Meteor Lake is being lauded as a watershed event in Intel’s manufacturing, architecture, and design processes, with the new-generation CPUs promising a slew of advantages. Even AMD, a direct competitor, changed the name format for its Ryzen mobile CPUs early this year. This post will go through Intel’s new Ultra and Core designations.

Intel’s Most Significant Brand Refresh in More Than a Decade

Intel’s brand is undergoing its most drastic transformation in 15 years. What is the goal? To simplify the brand’s naming practices across its desktop and laptop CPU lines. What is the most significant change? The iconic “i” in processor names is gradually being phased out. As a result, product names will now be classified into three categories: Core 3, Core 5, Core 7, and Core 9.

This new moniker will also appear on the processor’s badge, similar to how Intel stickers decorate laptops and desktop CPU packages. The generation and model number of the CPU will remain at the end of the title. Here’s a comparison of current branding vs new branding for a basic Core i7 processor:

Old Branding	Revised Branding
Intel Core i7 Processor ##### H/HX/U/P	Intel Core 7 Processor ##xx*

This name change will apply to other CPUs (such as the Core i3/i5/i7), with the “i” removed from their titles. Intel, too, is taking a two-pronged approach to product categorization. This allows businesses to differentiate their premium and mainstream product offerings.

The premium class will be known as Core Ultra, while the ordinary lineup will be known as Core. As a result, CPU names like “Intel Core Ultra 7 processor ##xx*” are likely. Along with these upgrades, Intel is refreshing its branding across the board (including the Evo and vPro Enterprise badges). The new aesthetic will look like this:

The Core Ultra variants of Intel’s 14th Generation CPUs will have badges in a deeper shade of blue, indicating an improvement from the base variant. This redesign marks a significant shift in Intel’s branding strategy. They intend to abandon the old practice of inserting the generation number before the ‘Intel Core’ brand name and will remove the “i” to emphasize the substantial transition to a new architecture to their consumers. Furthermore, Intel Arc graphics will work with both Intel Core and Intel Core Ultra processors.

Meteor Lake is a game changer in design, manufacturing, and architecture, according to Intel. To reflect the significant benefits Meteor Lake is expected to bring to both Intel and customers, the company is introducing a new naming scheme, moving away from the veteran “Core i” branding.

The first Intel Meteor Lake processors are expected to hit the market in the second half of 2023. As Intel has previously confirmed, at least the laptop processors will be far more efficient compared to the Raptor Lake, and will get a significantly faster integrated graphics chip and a dedicated AI accelerator.

This is made possible not least by the production from several tiles – the processor is manufactured using the modern Intel 4 process, the iGPU by TSMC. At Computex, we already discovered a first notebook based on Meteor Lake, which is equipped with a chip with six performance and eight efficiency cores. Intel has now officially confirmed that Meteor Lake will have a new naming scheme. The “i” is omitted, so Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 become Intel Core 3, Core 5 and Core 7.

This is followed by a number consisting of four to five digits and a letter that, as before, indicates the processor class, for example a “K” for processors that can be overclocked. What’s interesting is that Intel will offer both “Intel Core #” processors and “Intel Core Ultra #” CPUs. When asked, Intel did not want to confirm what the “Ultra” designation stands for.

It would be conceivable that “Ultra” denotes processors with a faster graphics chip or with additional features. The name “Intel Processor”, which was announced last year, will continue to be used for inexpensive chips that were previously marketed as Pentium and Celeron. More details on Meteor Lake’s technology are likely to be revealed over the next few months before the first notebooks based on the new chips are shipped in the fall.

Hannes Brecher – Senior Tech Writer – 12437 articles published on Notebookcheck since 2018

Since 2009 I have been writing for various publications in the technology sector until I joined the Notebookcheck news department in 2018. Since then I have combined my many years of experience in the field of notebooks and smartphones with my lifelong passion for technology to inform our readers about new developments on the market. My design background as art director of an advertising agency also allows me deep insights into the peculiarities of this industry.

Intel’s Most Significant Brand Refresh in More Than a Decade

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