Intel's naming scheme?

[2k3eblade]

Is my understanding of Intel's naming scheme correct?

LGA 1366

Core i7, i.e. 920

LGA 1156

Core i5, not released

LGA ??

Core i3, ??

LGA 775

Core 2 duo, i.e. E6300
Core 2 quad, i.e. Q9550
Pentium Dual Core, i.e. E6300 (good job Intel... picking the same model number)
Pentium D, i.e. 920
Celeron, ??

There is also the addition of laptop designations such as the T and L series.
Not to mention the the extreme line of Intel chips.
Is it just me or is Intel just as confusing as nVidia when it comes to designating their chips?

 

[khanis]

We don't really know about the Core i3's socket, but presumably it will be 1156. Still, nothing is certain as of yet.
Nvidia is worse imo lol.

 

[Acer_Sheep]

Model numbers and naming is and allways be the information fully understandable only by manufacturer, because in the company devices are sort as they want to. In some ways you can get some info by guessing. For example Socket LGA 775 means Land Grid Array interface with 775 pins on the socket. The reason why Pentium E6300 has same name as C2D E6300 in unknown, but maybe they are on same position in product line so are marked with same number only just one is pent and second is C2D. Previous Intel sockets PGA 370 and Socket 478 were Pin Grid Array type.

 

[KrylonArt]

Intel is keeping the "Intel Core" brand while adding two new "modifiers," i5 and i3, to signify one and two notches down respectively on the price/performance scale from Intel Core i7, which will remain at the top as a performance brand. In sum, you'll be able to buy what is essentially the same processor at three different performance and feature points, which are, from top to bottom: Intel Core i7, Intel Core i5, and Intel Core i3.

Intel is transitioning the "Centrino" brand from mobile platforms to wireless networking products. It's keeping the Pentium brand for very low-end platforms and Atom for mobile.

The other big part of the rebranding is a new stars rating. Five-star processors will have the most performance and features, and one-star processor will have the least. This isn't such a great idea, because, who really wants to buy a "one-star" anything? By broad and deeply-ingrained cultural consensus, "one star" or "two stars" doesn't mean "this is slightly less awesome than the five-star option," it means "this is a turkey, so stay away."

At some point it will actually be understandable. They are trying to make it similar to a BMW scheme. Core= 3 series, i3, i5, i7= 328, 330, 335 3 series. Then your 9xx would be the different trim levels available if it was a car. i, xi, d, etc. At least to me that's how it seems.

 

[Rockjay420]

why are they using prime numbers?

 

[NICKSTAR]

i dont understand why they started with 9xx.. why not start with 1xx?
Core i7 120
etc etc etc...

I miss the good ole days of P1, P2,P3, P4

 

[Nenu]

why are they using prime numbers?

...or odd numbers not including 1

 

[gwarren007]

Its easy:
They can't start at 1xx, because it would seem if the are more that they will produce in that line. They "rename" parts because the masses are more familiar with them, celeron and pentium are recurring product lines, and i7 was named for the correlation to windows7, i'll bet. "Get an i7 with windows7"- Can't you hear it now?

 

[BillParrish]

Missing a few
http://ark.intel.com/?iid=processors_body+resources_ark

If classifying by socket - this is handy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_socket

 

[ilkhan]

Rumors we're hearing is
i3 will be dual cores sans HT
i5 will be dual cores with HT and quads without HT
i7 is quads with HT.
i9 probably for gulftowns.

Not socket dependent (which is gonna SUCK for decoding names)

 

[Zero82z]

Rumors we're hearing is
i3 will be dual cores sans HT
i5 will be dual cores with HT and quads without HT
i7 is quads with HT.
i9 probably for gulftowns.

Not socket dependent (which is gonna SUCK for decoding names)

Hopefully they'll have some differentiation between the numbers so you know what socket each chip is for, like calling the LGA1156 i7 chips the 7xx series and keeping the LGA1366 chips as the 9xx series.

 

[apcviewer]

At some point it will actually be understandable. They are trying to make it similar to a BMW scheme. Core= 3 series, i3, i5, i7= 328, 330, 335 3 series. Then your 9xx would be the different trim levels available if it was a car. i, xi, d, etc. At least to me that's how it seems.

I would probably say the i3 would be the 3 series, the i5 would be the 5 series and i7 would be the 7 series. For each series, they have different clock speed (and in the car, different engine size/power output: i7 920 could be the 745iL and the 960 could be the 760iL). Trim level would be whether the processor is low power or not (if it shows up for the Core i processors).

Rumors we're hearing is
i3 will be dual cores sans HT
i5 will be dual cores with HT and quads without HT
i7 is quads with HT.
i9 probably for gulftowns.

Not socket dependent (which is gonna SUCK for decoding names)

I think I read on Anandtech (was linked from this forum) that the i5 will be quad core but only the lowest model will not have HT. The other i5s will be quad core and have HT.

 

[kniaugaudiskis]

As much as I know:
Core i7 LGA1366: 9xx;
Core i7 LGA1156: 8xx;
Core i5 LGA1156: 6xx;
Core i3 LGA1156: 5xx.

 

[DragonQ]

I assume the reason they're using odd numbers is so that they have the option to bring out an i4, i6 or i8 in the middle of two existing lines without having to use stupid names like Core i5X.

 

[ilkhan]

The chart is from XTreview, but I moved some stuff around (so it made more sense to me) and did the coloring.