Intel killing off the Celeron and Pentium processors in 2023 for the "Intel Processor". Long live the Pentiums (and Celerons).

[Wadmodder Shalton]

For those that grew up in the 1990s with an Intel Pentium or Celeron processor, this decade marks the end of an era for those CPUs. The announced Alder Lake-M marks the end of both processor ranges from Intel in favor of the name of just "Intel Processor" with the announced N100 and N200 CPU to replace both CPU product ranges next year.

 

The age of the x86 processor has evolved beyond the Pentium, with the rise of x86-64 CPUs (Origimally called AMD64), 64-bit OEM Windows PCs, 64-bit exclusive graphics drivers from Nvidia and AMD, the discontinuation of Intel's ill-fated IA-64 Itanium processors, the chip shortage due to COVID-19 (though the situation has been calming down for the most part), Windows 11 shipping only for 64-bit CPUs being the second Windows OS without a 32-bit version (the first being Windows Server 2008 R2) and the new AI software and hardware industry.

 

This is officially going to result in new changes for Windows software and game developers to make sure that the system requirements for their software and games to make use of the features of the Intel Processor and less on the features from the forever aging Intel Pentium and Celeron CPU brands.

 

So the next year will be goodbye to both the Intel Pentium and Celeron processors after nearly three decades, which results with nearly 30 years for the Pentium and 25 years for the Celeron.

 

RIP Intel Pentium 1993-2023 & RIP Intel Celeron 1998-2023

Edited September 21, 2022 by Wadmodder Shalton

[Mr. Freeze]

laughs in AMD Ryzen

[HavoX]

I still fondly remember those Pentium commercials from the 2000s... a few of which featured aliens.

[Solmyr]

So, It's mostly a brand name change? It's implied that the CPU architecture is going to be mostly the same, and previous Celeron processors have the same "N" denomination such as N1000, N4000 and such. 

 

"Intel Processor" sounds rather plain, but whatever, it's their marketing department choice to sound even more boring than their competition and their own previous brands.

[Murdoch]

Sounds like a simple branding change. Happens pretty much all the time.

[vyruss]

Being alive for when the Pentium brand became a "huge thing(tm)" as well as when it even became a thing, this is kind of saddening but expected.  With all of everyone's marketing becoming simplicity-centric, it's no real major surprise.

 

At least the processors will still actually be performant in real workloads instead of just synthetic benchmarks while crooning on about core counts.

[HavoX]

11 hours ago, Murdoch said:

Sounds like a simple branding change. Happens pretty much all the time.

Yeah, but even the simplest changes can be the most significant.

[Antkibo]

In this era where everybody is obsessed with creating brands that stick, there's Intel killing two of the most popular names in the market.

[Stupid Bunny]

Meanwhile 41 years later the MOS 65C02 is still going strong 💪 (well going anyway)

[heliumlamb]

16 hours ago, Stupid Bunny said:

Meanwhile 41 years later the MOS 65C02 is still going strong 💪 (well going anyway)

texas instruments still sells $80 yeehaw z80s and a hyper yeehaw z80 for $120 as well.

[Dravencour]

I'm on a Ryzen these days on a self-built computer, but still remember when Pentiums and Celerons were considered kickass tech.

[printz]

I thought this was long overdue, like why the hell do I still see "Pentium" and "Celeron" in stores nowadays, I thought it's ancient tech already, all the modern Intels being Core or Xeon. Seems like a ploy to sell weak trash to unsuspecting customers.