Wednesday, October 4th 2017

Intel to Rebrand Pentium "Kaby Lake" Processors as Pentium Gold

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btarunr
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Intel this Tuesday, issued a curious-looking product-change notification (PCN) directed at retail-channel distributors, which points to the re-branding of 7th generation Pentium "Kaby Lake" desktop processors under the new Pentium Gold brand (PCN #115827-00). The re-brand affects retail SKUs of the Pentium G4560, G4620, and G4600. Intel is borrowing the precious-metal nomenclature from its Xeon product-line over to the Pentium brand, which will help consumers tell the MSDT (mainstream-desktop) Pentium processors from the ULP (ultra low-power) chips branded Pentium.

When this product-change comes into effect from the 2nd of November, 2017, MSDT Pentium dual-core chips will be branded Pentium Gold, while low-power "Gemini Lake" SoCs will bear the Pentium Silver brand, besides Celeron. Re-branded names apart, the Pentium Gold SKUs will be identical to the parts they are replacing. The Pentium G4560, for example, will be re-branded Pentium Gold G4560 (or simply "4560") and will carry an identical feature-set. You probably won't even need to update your motherboard BIOS (of your 100-series and 200-series chipset motherboards) to use these chips. It's not likely that these chips will work on 300-series chipset motherboards since they feature a different pin-map, and the retail box design will reflect that with clear markings. The name change also comes with a refreshed case-badge and a slightly modified box design.

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35 Comments on Intel to Rebrand Pentium "Kaby Lake" Processors as Pentium Gold

#26
Prima.Vera
ZoneDymoPentium.... is just dated... its not really a positive name if you know what I mean.
Well, the CPU is also dated, so it fits perfectly.
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#27
lexluthermiester
Prima.VeraThis cannot be more confusing than their Xeon line, or worst, their mobile line...
Don't know about that. I deal with the Xeon line regularly and it's pretty straight forward compared to the Core desktop and mobile lines. Maybe it's because I'm familiar with them, but still.
RejZoRI don't quite understand the position of Pentiums anymore. For example, on laptops, you have shit tons of Celeron N3000 series and then there's shit tons of Core i3 5005 and 6006. Where do Pentiums fit in? I'd understand it's between Celeron and Core i3. But there just aren't any around. Maybe I've seen like 2 or 3 so far. But they cost almost more than Core i3 laptops so I'm confused...
It's because Intel doesn't want to waste anything. Part of the reason Celeron and Pentium lines exist side by side is because of Core i3 dies that bin out with defects and limitations but will operate fine with the flawed areas disabled can be marketed as feature limited alternative products. So when you buy a mainstream socket Celeron or Pentium, it's really just an i3 binned out with operable defects. The i5 is the same. Most of them are i7 dies that have flaws or operational limitations that prevent them from being delivered in the i7 package. And gets even more complicated than that. Such efforts are worth it to Intel as they can maximize profits and minimize loss. AMD, Nvidia and everyone else does the same thing to some degree.
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#28
dorsetknob
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btarunrGold, while low-power "Gemini Lake" SoCs will bear the Pentium Silver brand, besides Celeron. Re-branded names apart, the Pentium Gold SKUs will be identical to the parts they are replacing
Gold
Silver

and finally Lead :)
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#29
TheoneandonlyMrK
RejZoRWhat? I don't really understand what you're saying.
It's all just so confusing mate I've a little win 10 fusion 5 even Microsoft hasnt got a clue what it's processors called , though I've thought of a name:).
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#30
Keullo-e
S.T.A.R.S.
dorsetknobGold
Silver

and finally Lead :)
Rust would be the lowest low-end model. :D
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#34
Hood
theoneandonlymrkCheers , i have had a bit of luck tweaking it ,its not great but alright for browsing and remoting , it's Windows that doesn't know though not me ,thanks though.
Someone should tell them, just to point out how they still have work to do on Win 10 (as if they didn't know already). If Windows doesn't recognize a 2014 CPU, what other things does it miss? Just sayin'
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#35
TheoneandonlyMrK
HoodSomeone should tell them, just to point out how they still have work to do on Win 10 (as if they didn't know already). If Windows doesn't recognize a 2014 CPU, what other things does it miss? Just sayin'
I have logged it ,might be my tweaking.
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