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A processor by any other name

Intel i7 inside
Intel has decided to play the name game. As if having different processors named “Core”, “Core Duo”, “Core 2” and “Core 2 Duo” was no confusing enough, Intel has announced plans for a huge overhaul of their naming scheme. Not to be outdone by Apple, iCarly and pretty much everyone else, they decided to include to use a a lower-case “i” to identify different “Core” versions.

They will still sell Atom, Celeron and Pentium processors for netbooks, entry-level and basic consumption respectively. But for high-performance processors, particularly those used in servers, they will have the Core i3, Core i5 and the Core i7. An Intel blog explains:

“It is important to note that these are not brands but modifiers to the Intel Core brand that signal different features and benefits.”

Thanks, Intel, that cleared it up so well for us, but it is still not clear what the numbers mean. I am assuming they are not moving to an odd number of cores (i.e. 3, 5 and 7 instead of 2, 4 and 8 cores), which makes one wonder how this is supposedly simplified from the “Core Duo” nomenclature. Only time will tell, and while it is sure to confuse desktop computer users who usually just take the word of salespeople and end up with supposedly high-powered Celerons, the web hosting providers will want to know exactly what they are getting and really do not care about cute lowercase letters.

Source: Intel
Photo: Flickr

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