Why does Pentium still exist?

[porina]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Could give the i5s hyperthreading and then make the i7s have 3 way SMT or something  I mean, a 4 core 12 thread CPU does sound fun, no?

Having more threads per core only helps if it provides any useful benefit, which I'm not sure will be the case without more radical architecture changes.

 

Maybe they could scrap both i3 and i5, and create the i4: 3 cores, 6 threads with HT  

[TheRandomness]

3 minutes ago, porina said:

Having more threads per core only helps if it provides any useful benefit, which I'm not sure will be the case without more radical architecture changes.

 

Maybe they could scrap both i3 and i5, and create the i4: 3 cores, 6 threads with HT  

Eh, I don't think a tri-core would work well though..

Pentium = 2/4

i3 = 4/4

i5 = 4/8

i7 = 8/8

i9 = Above and beyond c: