The Intel Pentium

[FairladyZ]

I remember the ancient times when the Intel Pentium was the top of the line monstrosity thing that Intel made. Now, they turned the tables, and the Pentium is the 3rd lowest-class CPU, after the Intel Atom and the Intel Celeron. Intel should revive the Pentium's glory days and create a Pentium with 8 cores, a super fast clock speed, and 16 threads.

[Kherm]

I think Intel wouldn't want to do that, it'd mess up their whole naming scheme. 

 

 

Intel Pentium D Extreme Edition would be cool though. 

[DimasRMDO]

I remember the ancient times when the Intel Pentium was the top of the line monstrosity thing that Intel made. Now, they turned the tables, and the Pentium is the 3rd lowest-class CPU, after the Intel Atom and the Intel Celeron. Intel should revive the Pentium's glory days and create a Pentium with 8 cores, a super fast clock speed, and 16 threads.

Then what will happen to i3, i5 and i7? Also Xeon?

[Senzelian]

Then what will happen to i3, i5 and i7? Also Xeon?

Pentium 3, Pentium 5 and Pentium 7

short: p3, p5 and p7

[ThE_MarD]

Heyyo,

Look at the history amigo... the Intel Pentium was great... until the Pentium 4 and Pentium D came along and sucked compared to AMD's Athlon 64 and FX series.

Intel realized how their CPUs sucked compared to the competition and went back to the drawing board and rebuilt their CPUs and released the Core series. Then magic happened.

Nowadays? Yeah Pentium is a legacy name... but it also is a scarred legacy where-as the Core series are reknown for great instructions per clock and really good performance.

[NanneyGoat]

Yeah that would be cool but I'm sure nobody would buy the i3's, i5's, or the i7's if they did make one.  

[tonymmm1]

Intel should create a i8 or i9 that overpowers i7 and i7 becomes a budget cpu like i5.

[Pugs501]

Intel should create a i8 or i9 that overpowers i7 and i7 becomes a budget cpu like i5.

WAT!?

I think that's where E3 Xeons Jump in

[Ertman]

Let's muddy the water a little more. There are also celeron and pentium processors that would have been called Atoms in the past but aren't due to a naming scheme change.

[CatzRuleZWorld]

Or just a quad core version of the G3258. It would replace the 4690k.