If you haven’t been following Intel’s entry-level processors for a while, let me remind you: The company announced last year that it will remove the “Pentium” and “Celeron” brands for its mobile chips. Since the Intel laptop series in 2023 does not contain any Pentium and Celeron SKUs, it can be said that this decision is in effect. But the desktop lineup included Pentium and Celeron branded parts, at least until the 12th generation Alder Lake lineup.
However, that could soon change, Twitter user and leak source chi11edog said. Reportedly, Intel appears to be working on the new “Intel 300” branding in preparation for a dual-core processor. The leak suggests that this dual-core product will have two performance cores (P cores) with zero efficiency cores (E cores). P cores will have a total of four threads with hyperthreading (SMT or simultaneous multithreading). It looks like the P core has a base frequency of 3.9GHz within a power envelope of 46W.
Along with the new naming, this means that Intel will continue its trend of not offering any E-cores in its entry-level desktop chips, unlike its mobile products. For example, the Pentium Gold G7400 has the 2P + 0E core part, while the Pentium Gold G8500 mobile processor is based on the 1P + 4E configuration.
Intel might think that hybrid design is an unreasonable pursuit for such low-core parts, at least on desktop computers. Some recent testing has shown that Intel’s hybrid parts are not as fast and responsive as some older designs. Interestingly, non-hybrid parts like this upcoming Intel 300 CPU can be even worse when running Windows 11.
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