Why was there never a Pentium 5?

[Gillbatez_sicromoft]

I first got into computers when I was a kid. My dad would always build them and I would help him out,all I remember is that Radeon was a great graphics card and we would pair that with the pentium 4 that has hyper threading.

I know intel had the pentium, pentium II in the 90s and pentium III starting in 1999. Then they came out with the pentium 4 family and after that, for their non budget desktop cpu's they decided to go with core 2 duo and dropped the pentium name and after core 2 duo, they went with core i3,i5 and i7 which is what they still use today.

I've always wondered why they never had a pentium 5? They still use the pentium name but I think its only for low end chips used in budget builds.

[sub68]

its now Pentium gold and silver

 

[XAIXER]

They had problems with P4's successor, codenamed Tejas and Skyhawk, so they changed the name. The pent in pentium means 5, so they skipped the 80586.

[jaslion]

4 minutes ago, Gillbatez_sicromoft said:

I first got into computers when I was a kid. My dad would always build them and I would help him out,all I remember is that Radeon was a great graphics card and we would pair that with the pentium 4 that has hyper threading.

I know intel had the pentium, pentium II in the 90s and pentium III starting in 1999. Then they came out with the pentium 4 family and after that, for their non budget desktop cpu's they decided to go with core 2 duo and dropped the pentium name and after core 2 duo, they went with core i3,i5 and i7 which is what they still use today.

I've always wondered why they never had a pentium 5? They still use the pentium name but I think its only for low end chips used in budget builds.

They went pentium D for pentium dual core and then decided to name their pentiums that are dual cores Intel Pentium dual core.

 

In the end it's just a name and they wanted to move themselves away from the pentium brand for high performance cpu's as amd had been on top with their athlon 64's during the whole pentium 4 era and the pentium D's were energy consuming monsters.

[Kilrah]

Probably because the P4s had pretty terrible reputation and they wanted to distanciate from that image with the new, much better Core products.

[Slayerking92]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos

That song killed the name.