Is Intel about to say goodbye to the Pentium and Celeron CPU lines?

According to Neowin , Pentium and Celeron are both Intel's low-end CPU lines aimed at the budget PC segment with basic specifications for decades. Last year, the company announced it would drop the "Pentium" and "Celeron" branding for its mobile CPU line. As a result, since the beginning of 2023, Intel has not released any Pentium or Celeron SKUs for laptops.

Will the Intel 300 series be the cheaper line of desktop CPUs, replacing Pentium and Celeron?

While Pentium and Celeron CPUs have disappeared from laptops, they are still used in desktops, at least until the 12th generation Alder Lake series. However, things may soon change as a leak from a user on social media platform X indicates Intel is working on a new brand called "Intel 300" for a dual-core CPU line. The dual-core concept suggests this CPU model will include two P cores and can operate on four threads thanks to hyperthreading. These P cores have a clock speed of 3.9 GHz with a power consumption of 46W.

This means the company will continue its trend of not offering any E-core (power-efficient) cores on its budget desktop CPU line. Perhaps Intel feels that a hybrid core design isn't worthy of PC systems with such low core counts, especially for desktops. However, the "outdated" design of the Intel 300 series CPUs may prevent them from meeting the new requirements Microsoft has set for Windows 11.

Updating the naming conventions for Pentium and Celeron CPUs isn't the only thing Intel is doing, as the company also plans to introduce a new Core Ultra name without the "i" in its 14th generation CPU line, or Meteor Lake.

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