As of the 14th generation Core series, Intel’s once-popular Pentium and Celeron CPU lines may be forgotten if the latest rumors are correct.
According to Neowin, Pentium, and Celeron are both low-end CPU lines from Intel aimed at the low-cost PC segment with basic parameters for decades. Last year, the company announced it would remove the “Pentium” and “Celeron” branding for its mobile CPUs. As a result, since the beginning of 2023, Intel has not launched any Pentium and Celeron SKUs for laptops
While the Pentium and Celeron series of CPUs have disappeared from laptops, they are still used on desktops, at least until the 12th generation Alder Lake series. However, things could soon change as A leak from a user on social network X indicates that Intel is working on a new brand called “Intel 300” for dual-core CPUs. The dual-core concept suggests that this CPU model will include 2 P cores and can operate at 4 threads thanks to hyper-threading. This P core is clocked at 3.9 GHz with a power consumption of 46W.
That means the company will continue with its trend of not offering any E (power-saving) cores on its low-cost desktop CPUs. Perhaps Intel feels the hybrid core design is not worthy of such low-core count PC systems, especially for desktops. However, the “outdated” design of the Intel 300 CPU may prevent it from meeting the new requirements Microsoft introduced for Windows 11.
Updating new names for Pentium and Celeron CPUs is not the only thing that Intel is working on as the company also plans to introduce a new Core Ultra name without the “i” on its 14th generation CPUs, or Meteor Lake
