2年前

Intel's ditching the 'i' in 'Core i5/i7/i9' and will stop calling out chip generations

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DaleGribble88 @programming.dev

2年前

Intel's ditching the 'i' in 'Core i5/i7/i9' and will stop calling out chip generations

www.pcgamer.com /intels-ditching-the-i-in-core-i5i7i9-and-will-stop-calling-out-chip-generations/

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Going the Apple route of making products more confusing, nice.
- Lots of companies are guilty of this. Nvidia and SSD manufacturers with their stealth downgrades under same product name and the entirety of the monitor space:
  
  well, the monitor names actually follow some sense even if they look weird.
  
  Reminds me of the ProZD skit on naming "Tales of" games.
- The apple chips are very straightforward though?
  M1, M2 for generation, and (nothing), Pro, Ultra, Max for level.
  
  I want to buy a second hand iPad or MacBook. How am I meant to know which one is which gen?
  The only product they have that is clear and somewhat easy for consumers is the iPhone.
- Are you not excited for the "Intel Core 9 1900H Mid 2023"?
But why? It was easy and recognizable.
- Harder to recognise makes it easier to up-sell crappier models to those not close enough to the detail. I was mulling over going AMD with the next laptop (which admittedly won’t be any time soon), this makes me lean more towards that idea.
  
  AMD's new naming scheme is also horrific
  https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/amd-is-making-laptop-cpu-model-numbers-simultaneously-less-and-more-confusing/
- So it can confuse buyers, and they buy a lower generation for a higher price
- Was it though? Maybe to people like us, but not to my folks.
  Personally, I‘d prefer some sort of naming convention that was like Apple’s. Generation number, then some sort of Good, Better, Best name tacked on the back.
  That said, the words Apple picked for Good-Better-Best are kind of stupid and not as clear as the could be.
... well, that's going to be incredibly confusing.
- They had already gotten confusing when they started selling dual core i5 processors.
It's because of Moore's law. Unless Intel responds to AMD's openSIL initiative to open the bootloader initialization API, it doesn't matter what they do. The ability to finally run an entirely secure x86 computer hasn't existed in 15 years since the i-core/ryzen series. OpenSIL means Intel doesn't even exist any more IMO.
- I'm confused, why does OpenSIL matter to this announcement?
  
  They are no longer hardware relevant. Marketing obscurity will only make it worse.
This is going to backfire really hard.
Just a friendly heads up, but this is likely better suited for !technology@beehaw.org rather than Gaming
- Thanks for the heads up, I'm still learning about where the different communities are on here. Also, subscribed! :)

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