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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80-wattHamster - Friday, October 20, 2017 - link
Duopolies seem to be the natural endpoint of a mature competitive market, sometimes with also-rans. Successful concerns buy out the less-successful until you're left with two that are too large to either buy each other or muscle the other out, or are prevented in those actions by anti-trust law. In addition to Intel/AMD, see also: Microsoft/Apple, Apple/Samsung, iOS/Android, Ford/GM, Verizon/AT&T, Boeing/Airbus, etc.versesuvius - Friday, October 13, 2017 - link
It is not as creative as "President Trump". Maybe "Gold House"?mapesdhs - Friday, October 13, 2017 - link
Sensible people chose the former. MAGA! Antifa supporters think Atoms are cool. There, now I've gone and done it. :Dserendip - Friday, October 13, 2017 - link
Atoms *are* cool. And cheap! Go find me another fanless tablet SoC that doesn't run hot and runs x86.Meteor2 - Monday, October 16, 2017 - link
Like MS with Windows Mobile, Intel abandoned fanless Atom just as it was getting good.I think they simply wanted lower revenues but better returns by leaving only Core M in the market.
bigboxes - Friday, October 13, 2017 - link
That's gold, Jerry! Gold!Surfacround - Friday, October 13, 2017 - link
buy a pentium Gold processor... become a TiN man... you know from from film “the wizard of oz...”(if i only had a brain...lol)
TiN get it?... Titanium Nitride coating on drill bits... gold colour/color... i like to joke that i have TiN starbuck card...
someonesomewherelse - Saturday, October 14, 2017 - link
So now they'll be able to charge more for the same CPU?zodiacfml - Sunday, October 15, 2017 - link
Rebranding for nothing. I thought these are slow quad core parts.delakota555 - Saturday, January 6, 2018 - link
Are they rebranded Gold and Silver as they can be melted down? Meltdown...see what I did there? AMD Ryzen for me now! :-)