Intel Unveils New “Core” Branding For Next-Gen CPUs, First Featured on Meteor Lake

wccftech.com:

Intel has finally unveiled its brand new "Core" branding for next-gen CPUs starting with the 14th-Gen Meteor Lake lineup.

Intel had already teased that it was going to adopt a new branding scheme for its next-gen CPUs. The company reveals that it will no longer place generational messaging in front of the Intel Core brand in marketing or in silicon but would instead be called out in the processor number. That's a lot similar to how AMD is managing the new branding for its Ryzen 7000 mobile SKUs which feature several different generations of Zen CPUs that are then differentiated by their SKU numbering.

So as part of today's update, Intel is:

The new naming scheme will be applied across all client products so that includes desktops and mobiles but the Meteor Lake CPU family will be the first to utilize it starting in 2H 2023. The most significant change that the new branding brings is dropping the "i" which has been part of Intel's naming scheme for over a decade.

So instead of using the traditional Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, & Core i9 branding, the new chips will shift to Core 3, Core 5, Core 7, and Core 9. Once again, these changes will be reflected in the brand strings, text, and on the badge of the product.

So introducing its new Meteor Lake branding, Intel has announced two lines of products. The client mainstream SKUs feature the Core 3, Core 5, & Core 7 SKUs, and the client premium SKUs that feature the Core Ultra 5, Core Ultra 7, & Core Ultra 9 SKUs. These processors will drop the "i" from their naming entirely and once again, the generation will be embedded within the numbering. I think it would have been even better if Intel had used an example SKU to further elaborate their new naming scheme like AMD did but that