Is Intel Going to Kill its Celeron Processor Brand?

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I use a Celeron (and have been for the better part of two years now) to power my firewall. Atom boards don't have enough network jacks (or PCI cards to add more cards) so a small Celeron based board does the trick. Low power means that the UPS (1250) can run the firewall and the AP/Cable modem for almost 3 hours.
 
good times...
i've used at least 2 celeron m's, several celeron d pcs so far. they're quite adequate for everyday basic tasks. sad to hear they might be phased out. not everyone needs top of the line processors only to surf the internet, listen to mp3s and may be watch some youtube. i remember the first few celerons were such buzzkills. later versions were better. both celeron and pentiums are good counterparts for amd's sempron and athlon ii. afaik sandy bridge celerons and pentiums are the only entry level 32nm desktop/mobile processors, amd has no 32 nm semprons or athlon 2's against celeron.
i guess intel might be using pentium for entry level desktop market and atom for entry level mobile and smartphone market, so celeron suddenly has no place to be...
why not merge pentium and celeron into centium or peleron? or merge pentium, celeron and atom into centiumom or peleratom or unobtainium? 😛
 
[citation][nom]dalethepcman[/nom]Oh no, the crappiest performing cpu's may now be called Pentium instead of Celeron. Now E-Machines and Compaq will have to change the words on half their boxes.[/citation]
This...The only difference is the name. The Celeron name will be replaced with a new line with a different name but in the same price range.
 
[citation][nom]n-dru[/nom]imho it's remarkable the Celeron brand lasted this long..adieu Celeron![/citation]
Intel Celeron est Merde. AMD Bulldozer est Merde. Intel Sandy Bridge est tres bien.
 
[citation][nom]directxtreme[/nom]Well they should get rid of something. Intel has way too many brands out right now... Atom, Celeron, Pentium, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7. I say get rid of the Atom and Pentium because the Atom is too weak for a netbook CPU and Intel could castrate one of their ULV Sandy Bridge parts and sell it for as cheap as the Atom (and even with that, they will still perform better), and because the Pentium doesn't really target a specific market. Both brands are fluff.[/citation]
How about maybe i1 (netbook, low-end chips, like the AMD E300/E350/E450 which are meant for netbooks, also showing up in low-end 15" laptops and some desktops for some reason), and i3 (lower-end), i5 (mid-range), and i7 (powerful)? Atom's a POS, and Celeron's not that powerful. At minimum I would get a Pentium if building a web surfing machine, if not an i3 2100 or so.
 
[citation][nom]KawiNinjaZX[/nom]That is a poor decision. You can build a celeron dual-core, 2gb ram windows 7 PC very very cheap and it would be great for at least 50% of the people out there, who only do facebook and email. Also, since celerons went dual-core, I think they run very well for every day computing.[/citation]

I don't think they would kill of products that fit the Celeron range. Just the name and with it peoples preconceived thoughts of what a Celeron represents.
 
I don't know why there are people saying the atom, celeron, and pentium CPUs need to be eliminated. That's just not true. They just need to get rid of those tired old names. When someone says they have a celeron CPU, that means next to nothing. There's been so many CPUs called celerons its ridiculous. I'm even sick of the "core" name.
 
why are people talking about killing off pentiums and celerons?
core i3 is not a budget cpu. it's in the lower end of the midrange cpus. intel can price them lower but they won't. remember, intel charges nearly $90 more for hyper threading and 2 mb more cache and few mhz speed bump (core i5 2500 vs core i7 2600). $30 more for hyperthreading, minor speed bump, quick sync, avx etc (core i3 vs pentium).
according to intel, users cannot have those features at sub-$90 price range. that's why pentium and celerons continue to exist and probably will continue to exist.
you want core i3 for budget lineup? wait till quad cores become entry level, may be after haswell has come out.LOL
 
Current desktop Celeron line up is very reasonable. The single core G440 makes sense for NAS where the decent disk controllers on the P67 boards do most of the work. The dual G5x0s are more than competitive with similarly priced Athlon II x2s.

That being said... the Sempron line is almost dead and AMD is ditching the Athlon/Phenom lables. Re-branding the Pentiums and Celerons i2 and i1 would make more sense.
 
now that pentium is for the low-end and i3 for entry level use, there is not much reason to carry the celeron brand. i think of celeron as a means for intel to dispose some partially crippled pentiums or icores
 
I think it's a good thing, celerons are pointless. The new sandy bridge Pentiums are cheap and powerful, Atoms are more or useless, but they exist, celerons figure where?
Ivy bridge onwards, i suspect that Atom processors would be as powerful as celerons anyway.

Sub-$100 is really a pentium game now.
 
It's not the Celeron name the problem, it's the crappy low-end processors Intel sells to the market. If tomorrow they call it Pentium X or Core i1, will it matter? I will still be the same crappy product.
 
[citation][nom]11796pcs[/nom]You guys don't get it with the Atoms. Yes they are slow procesors BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER. The whole point of the Atom is that it is low power and can be passively cooled. It's perfect for netbooks. Every time I see people put down the Atoms I get frustrated because they are meant to run cool- not win speed races. And they don't have to win speed races because they're on netbooks which are meant for internet browsing and have extremely small screens. I agree that the Pentium and Celeron lines should go, but putting an i3 that needs to be fan cooled in a netbook is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.[/citation]
sounds like an apple fanboi said that "BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER, i buy apple...because i'm creative" 😀
the AMD Fusion & Nvidia Tegra mop the floor of Atom from top to bottom
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[citation][nom]STravis[/nom]Still like Celerons or Atoms for NAS boxes at home. Low power consumption and more than enough oomph to handle the task at hand.[/citation]
have u ever heard about AMD Fusion or VIA Nano ? they work better than the Atom and crappy celeron
 
CELERON or PENTIUM... Whatever they will want to call their processors, they will still most probably be better in IPC computing than the Athlon's....
 
[citation][nom]loomis86[/nom]I don't know why there are people saying the atom, celeron, and pentium CPUs need to be eliminated. That's just not true. They just need to get rid of those tired old names. When someone says they have a celeron CPU, that means next to nothing. There's been so many CPUs called celerons its ridiculous. I'm even sick of the "core" name.[/citation]

Core is the dumbest name ever. Duron sucked too though.

You may as well name a car "Piston", or name the motor "engine" as call a processor "core". It's horrible. Celeron sounds too much like a non-nutritive vegetable though. Atom is good (although the processor itself, not the name, has it's negatives), Itanium is good. Pentium isn't bad. Athlon reminds one of a foot fungus. Phenom sounds too trendy. Opteron is good, it sounds futuristic.
 
brand names.... amd got some cool sounding ones - bulldozer, piledriver, excavator, phenom, trinity, bobcat. intel's names don't sound as cool as amd's. nvidia finally used some not-so-dorky names from comics - wayne, kal-el, stark. imo via has one of the dorkiest sounding codenames. amd has too - zambezi, vishera, komal. intel out does both via and amd - tualatin, willamett, mendocino (now i've started using wikipedia 😛)... sandy bridge.
why didn't intel call sandy bridge something stronger like blockbuster or bulldozer-dozer or zambezi-dryer or chimichanga.
i will never know.
 
There's really very little that differentiates the Celeron and the Pentium nowadays. The only tangible differences are slightly higher clock speeds and slightly larger L3 cache (3MB vs 2MB) for the Pentium. In the real world there's very little difference between the two, so it doesn't make much sense to keep both brands unless they can something that actually sets them apart.

Benchmarks:
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A meager 3-10% difference between both brands.
 
[citation][nom]mstngs351[/nom]I don't think they would kill of products that fit the Celeron range. Just the name and with it peoples preconceived thoughts of what a Celeron represents.[/citation]

I have noticed AMD killed the Sempron name. All Semprons are DOGS. They are so friggin slow it's pathetic. Celerons are a solid CPU for the price. I work on PCs 46 hours a week, I see all makes, models, and specs. AMD calls the sempron the "V-Series" now, but there is hiding it's terrible performance. I don't go by numbers, I run the systems and judge for myself. Intel doesn't make a single "dog" processor except the Atom, but that's expected.
 
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