Intel’s Meteor Lake processors are apparently on track to launch in the second half of 2023, and these will mostly arrive with one big change: a brand new name.
To everyone’s surprise, Intel’s director of global communications, Bernard Fernandes confirmed on Twitter that the chip giant is preparing a rebrand for the end of the year. Citing that the company is at an “inflection point” ahead of the launch of its Meteor Lake architecture client processors later this year, Intel apparently plans to shake up how it names its processors.
Current “Core” processors were present on the market since the end of 2008, with the launch of traditional i3/i5 and i7 chips. Intel had since added i9 chips and played around with suffixes several times over the past 15 years, but would be about to break the codes with the Meteor Lake generation.
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Intel chips will become “Ultra”
If the Intel framework did not confirm the company’s future series of processors, it was without counting a leak on a famous benchmark. THE Intel’s next generation Meteor Lake processor has ended up in the Ashes of Singularity database. While the test results don’t yield much valuable performance information, they do reveal a few details about the specs and brand of the chip.
The processor in question is called Core Ultra 5 1003H, and it would be an 18-thread chip comprising a few Redwood Cove “P” cores and several Crestmont “E” cores. The Core “i” therefore now become the Core “Ultra”. However, a leaker claims that the name “Ultra” will not be present on all chips, without further details.
We would therefore end up with the following changes in the name of the chips:
- Core i9 1XX00H → Core (Ultra) 9 1X0XH
- Core i7 1XX00H → Core (Ultra) 7 1X0XH
- Core i5 1XX00H → Core (Ultra) 5 1X0XH
- Core i3 1XX00H → Core (Ultra) 3 1X0XH
The name “Core Ultra” is ultimately not so surprising. The use of the term “Ultra” is much more popular in tech brands lately. Apple has used it in particular for its iPhones and its M series chips, and in telephony, giants such as Xiaomi and Samsung use it to designate their most powerful smartphones. We would therefore be dealing here with the “best” chips from Intel, but we will have to wait a little longer before knowing more about the different series that the manufacturer is preparing.
