Intel marketing seems to be going all in on using generic names to trick people into buying lower end parts. They changed the marketing of Celeron/Pentium to the most generic “Intel processor” line up. Now when you specify to make sure you buy an “ultra” chip it’s easy for the layman to buy the lowest end chip out of ignorance.
Drug dealer character Stringer Bell in ‘The Wire’ had a good scene where he talked about the business strategy of repackaging and renaming something when you are unable to raise the quality of a product. Just rename it and customers think it’s better.
“intel core 9 ultra” sounds like something apple would name
iCore 9 Pro Max
iCore 9 ProMaxI’m still annoyed HBO Max was changed to Max. Fucking stupid
Let’s just have Microsofts Xbox division name then.
- Intel Core 5
- Intel Core 5 ultra
- Intel Core 5 series Ultra
- Intel Core 5 series Ultra pro
- Intel Series Ultra Core Pro 5
You forgot
- Intel Core Intel 5 Series Pro
which is different from
- Intel Core 5 Series Pro
Don’t forget
- intel core one slim
Which is their best one.
Intel says the rebranding “better aligns to customer requests” to simplify its processor names
But it doesn’t simplify the processor name!? Instead of i5, we now have to say “core 5” or “intel core 5”.
I have a feeling everyone’s going to end up calling them i9s anyways
They don’t seem to understand where the customer confusion comes from. A lot of people out there don’t really realize that a Core i7 could mean very different things because that name has been slapped on new CPUs for…15 years. They delineate product generations as part of a model number (2600k, 6700k, etc). There is so much ambiguity when someone just says their computer has a Core i7, non tech-savvy folk aren’t going to remember the string of numbers that comes after that.
AMD copied them, and that probably leads to similar confusion.
Apple seems to be the smart one in the room when it comes to CPU naming. The generation of the product is right there in the first part of it’s name: M1, M2, etc. The performance class is suffixed (no suffix, Pro, Max, Ultra).
Before it was Intel Core i5 so it’s simpler than the old name
Well officially yes, but I don’t know anyone that consistently called it “Intel Core i5” instead of just “i5”. And I don’t see that happening with just “5”.
“Which processor do you have?”
“5”said nobody ever
That’s exactly the point I’m trying to make. “i5” as an answer would’ve made sense, but “5” doesn’t
So what’s faster? A Core 7 or a Core Ultra 5?
Ryzen
So they remove the i, but add ‘Ultra’ for high performance CPUs. 🤦🏻♂️
Yeah, removing one character isn’t gonna simplify things if we’re taking on more stuff at the end.
