It was a foregone conclusion that Intel’s processor naming scheme was on the chopping block. We’ve already talked about it on several occasions. But now it’s official: the Core i 14 will be the last to bear the Core i X name.
The end of Core i X, make way for Core X and Core X Ultra!
It’s now official: the Raptor Lake refresh processors will be the very last to use this old naming scheme. As a reminder, it was introduced in 2008 with the arrival of the Core i7 Bloomfield. This nomenclature will gradually replace Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad, with Core i3 and Core i5 arriving later. Much later, it would be completed by Core i9s, initially reserved for the blue HEDT socket, then rolled out to Intel’s mainstream platforms with the gradual demise of the LGA-2000.
From Meteor Lake onwards, we’ll be seeing Core 3, 5, 7 and 9, or Core Ultra 3, 5, 7 and 9, a pattern strangely faithful to AMD’s… Incidentally, we’ve already covered news related to this new nomenclature, including everything to do with the Core Ultra 7 155H, for example.
Finally, we note that Intel still distinguishes between Core X and Core Ultra X. According to VideoCardz, this difference is explained by “the use of a new silicon technology”. We could extrapolate this to mean MCM integration, as is planned with Meteor Lake, particularly for the mobile segment. For the desktop segment, we should see the arrival of Arrow Lake-S in 2024, with a new socket.
