Intel Rebrands Kaby Lake Pentiums to Pentium Gold
by Anton Shilov & Joe Shields on October 12, 2017 2:30 PM EST- Posted in
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- Intel
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- Apollo Lake
- Pentium Gold
Intel has announced plans to rebrand its current generation Pentium processors, and future generations, to 'Pentium Gold' chips. The rebranding reflects Intel’s intention to position the latest Pentium CPUs above the previous generation parts.
Starting from November 2nd, Intel’s boxed Pentium G4560, G4600, and G4620 processors will carry the Pentium Gold brand. These parts were launched in Q1 2017, and are dual-core CPUs with Hyper-Threading technology and an improved integrated GPU.
| General Specifications of Intel's Pentium G-Series Processors | |||||||||||||
| Kaby Lake | Skylake | ||||||||||||
| Cores | Freq. | L3 | iGPU | TDP | Cores | Freq. | L3 | iGPU | TDP | ||||
| Gold G4620 | 2/4 | 3.7GHz | 3MB | i630 | 51W | G4520 | 2/2 | 3.6GHz | 3MB | i530 | 51W | ||
| Gold G4600 | 3.6GHz | G4500 | 3.5GHz | ||||||||||
| Gold G4560 | 3.5GHz | i610 | 54W | G4400 | 3.3GHz | i510 | 54W | ||||||
| G4600T | 3.0GHz | i630 | 35W | G4500T | 3.0GHz | i530 | 35W | ||||||
| G4560T | 2.9GHz | i610 | G4400T | 2.9GHz | i510 | ||||||||
| HD Graphics 610: 12 EUs at 900 - 1100 MHz HD Graphics 630: 24 EUs at 1000 - 1150 MHz |
HD Graphics 510: 12 EUs at 950 MHz HD Graphics 530: 24 EUs at 1150 MHz |
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With the name changes also comes a slight branding and retail packaging update. The first is with their “Piggyback label” (included sticker attached to the instructions), which changes from the ‘PCB’ die map as a background to gold. Instead of saying Pentium inside, it now says Pentium Gold with the Intel name above it.
The outside of the retail packaging carton some changes are made as well. Where it used to simply say “Desktop Processor” now says “Intel Pentium Gold Desktop Processor.”
There are unofficial reports claiming that Intel is also preparing Pentium Silver products, thus splitting the desktop Pentium lineup into two groups. The Pentium Gold family evidently consists of the mainstream desktop (MSDT) processors based on the high-performance Core-branded microarchitecture. According to some reports, the Pentium Silver lineup will use the ultra-low power (ULP) codenamed Gemini Lake microarchitecture, but we cannot confirm this independently.
Source: Intel
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jabbadap - Thursday, October 12, 2017 - link
Good, now they can increase their prices. Because gold is expensive.watzupken - Thursday, October 12, 2017 - link
Intel created the confusion in the first place when they decided to remove the Atom branding and use Pentium and Celeron for these low power chips to make it sound so low end. So now they try to give it a nicer name by adding names of precious metals to it. Pentium platinum anyone?Hereiam2005 - Thursday, October 12, 2017 - link
Gold is not trademark-able. Just saying.RealBeast - Friday, October 13, 2017 - link
Pentium Gold is.krayzieka215 - Friday, October 13, 2017 - link
this will be a very good reason to boycott Intel for lifeHurr Durr - Friday, October 13, 2017 - link
Do you can`t even yet?mapesdhs - Friday, October 13, 2017 - link
My grammar chip exploded reading that. :}Frenetic Pony - Friday, October 13, 2017 - link
"Ok everyone. Our competition for x86 processors is back, our consumer hardware space is shrinking continuously. Our new silicon node has faced indefinite delays, our attempts to branch out into the Internet Of Things has failed miserably, and a major customer's own processor IP is beating ours by a wide margin. We are losing it people! I need options.""What if we took a semi vague way of branding our products and, get this, made it slightly more vague?"
"Yes! I like it, that's the sort of thinking that will turn this company around!"
Hurr Durr - Friday, October 13, 2017 - link
>competitionWake up, CPU duopoly is screwing you back and forward with the cheapest tactic available.
BrokenCrayons - Friday, October 13, 2017 - link
The solutions to that problem are small in number. Adding more competitors won't give us the promise of avoiding us reaching this same status quo again later. That's the trouble with a competitive market. Sooner or later, someone "wins" at the expense of other companies and customers.