Amid all the talking about the Celeron's future, Intel committed to the entry-level CPU in a conference call earlier this week.
“We will not take [32nm process technology and appropriate micro-architecture] down into the Pentium and Celeron until either late this year or early next year,” said Intel CEO Paul Otellini, quoted by X-bit labs.
Reports from Taiwan originally said that Intel would not be moving the Celeron onto any new CPU architecture, leaving it to phase out when the Core 2 technology is no longer in production.
Intel refuted the report, and the now it seems that the Celeron brand will continue to occupy the value segment right above the Atom.