Intel Says That Celeron Will Continue to Live On
Earlier on, we heard from Taiwanese sources that Intel will be phasing out the Celeron CPU brand sometime in 2011 as things move towards Sandy Bridge. No so, says Intel; the Celeron the will live on.
"The rumor is not true, Intel has no plan to phase out the Celeron brand in 2011. Intel Celeron processors continue to provide a low-cost computing solution for basic computing needs," wrote Barry Sum, an Intel spokesman in Hong Kong, in an e-mail response to questions from IDG.
X-bit labs still claims that it has seen roadmaps that show that the Celeron will not be moving to a Nehalem-based architecture, leaving some to wonder what will happen to the Celeron brand when the Core 2 family is no longer in production.
Right now, Intel scales its product offerings with the Atom, Celeron, Pentium, Core 2, and Core i brandings. While it may be a bit crowded now, the eventual drop of the Core 2 Duo products will give Intel a little more room to keep the Celeron in the lineup.
I hope celeron phases out
real pice of... well u know
I curse myself every day for buying this laptop
The whole point of Atom CPU is low power consumption and I don't see a Celeron winning over an Atom in this area.
I don't think he was implying that the Celeron had lower power consumption.
Intel should kill "Pentium" branding because is very very old.
So what's the point of having 2 low end cpu's.
Celerons have had their good days and bad days... If I were intel I would think it's time to let them rest and have the Popular Pentium Name run for the Masses of Excel, business and retirement home computers... EDIT: I USED BAD LANGUAGE, AND AM WASHING MY MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP RIGHT NOW... that's fine by me.
Intel is so articulate.
I suppose you never had a Mendocino Celeron then. The Mendocinos were the first Intel desktop chip with a full-speed, on-die L2 cache and overclocked like mad. The 300A was a very famous chip with enthusiasts as it was inexpensive and regularly reached 450 MHz. That's pretty impressive considering "inexpensive" still meant about $150 and the Pentium IIs of the day cost a lot more and could maybe overclock 10-20%.
But yeah, most of the rest of the Celerons stink. The only other decent Celerons are the PIII Coppermine-based units, the Celeron 4xx Core 2-based single-cores, and a few of the current 45 nm dual-cores. The rest stink, particularly the L2-less original Covington model, the 128K L2 NetBurst units, and the SpeedStep-less notebook Celerons.
Agreed 100%.
totally agree.