Intel resurrects Tenth-gen CPU for ‘new’ Core i5

Intel would really like you to find out about a brand new processor it’s promoting. It’s a 6-core, 12-thread, 14-nanometer design that attracts 65 watts and runs at 2.9Ghz, referred to as the Core i5-110. In case you watch Intel processors like a hawk, that may sound acquainted: The specs look like an identical to the Core i5-10400, a Comet Lake CPU that first debuted in 2020.

In product phrases that is what’s often called a “rebadge,” and it’s hardly unprecedented for each common chips and different designs. However given the tempo of CPU tech, and the problems Intel is dealing with in the mean time, this specific instance may rub shoppers the mistaken manner. Assuming they discover, after all — all the level of a rebadge is getting merchandise on the market with out making a lot of a splash. The brand new itemizing was noticed by Twitter poster @momomo_US.

Intel is looking this a “Core™ processors (Sequence 1)” although in its protection, it does determine it as “merchandise previously Comet Lake within the itemizing. One factor that hasn’t modified is the value. At $200 USD, the i5-110 prices precisely the identical because the Core i5-10400 did 5 years in the past. Even should you suppose that’s a superb deal (it’s fairly milquetoast), monitoring down the DDR4 RAM to go together with it in 2025 may simply cancel out any funds plans.