{"id":178366,"date":"2016-09-05T09:02:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T07:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=178366"},"modified":"2016-09-05T09:05:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T07:05:39","slug":"intels-new-cpu-names-make-fast-and-slow-processors-look-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/178366-intels-new-cpu-names-make-fast-and-slow-processors-look-the-same.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel’s new CPU names make fast and slow processors look the same"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intel recently unveiled its 7th-gen Core processors<\/strong><\/a>, promising improved performance for users.<\/p>\n

The new processors have new codes to identify them at 7th generation, but, as spotted by Laptop Mag<\/strong><\/a>, these codes mix the “Core m” name in the with the “Core i” branding.<\/p>\n

The “Core i” range have always been powerful processors in high-end laptops, while the “Core m” CPUs are usually in smaller, less-powerful devices.<\/p>\n

Processors which were formally called the\u00a0m5 and m7 and now listed under the i5 and i7 lines, though.<\/p>\n

Intel said the renaming decision is to make it simpler for consumers to select a processor, but many have argued that the naming convention will confuse customers.<\/p>\n

Consumers can still identify the “Core m” chips in the “Core i” range by looking out for a “Y” in the model number.<\/p>\n

For example, the “Core\u00a0i5-7Y54” is a former “m” chip. The original “Core i” line will continue with codes like “i5-7200U”.<\/p>\n

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Intel recently unveiled its 7th-gen Core processors, with the CPUs featuring a new naming convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":177605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,131,32580],"class_list":["post-178366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-intel","tag-intel-core-processors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178368,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178366\/revisions\/178368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}