Rumor: Intel is working on budget CPU with new brand name ‘Intel 300’

Intel is reportedly working on a processor called the Intel 300. It would be a successor to the Pentium Gold G7400 from early 2022 and, just like that budget CPU, it will have two performance cores with four threads. Intel has not yet officially confirmed the new series of CPUs.

The 14th Gen Intel 300 from the Raptor Lake refresh generation will receive, according to the leaker chi11eddog a clock speed of 3.9GHz and a TDP of 46 watts. In addition to the same core configuration, the Pentium Gold G7400 had the same TDP but a slightly lower clock speed of 3.7GHz. According to the source, the Intel 300 would once again have 6MB of L3 cache memory. The processor is expected to be announced this quarter.

If the name of the processor is indeed correct, it would be the first time since the 1980s that Intel does not use a prefix or extra letters in the processor name, but only numbers. In recent decades, the brand’s processors have in principle always fallen under the Core, Pentium, Celeron, Xeon or Processor series. Earlier this year, Intel announced a name change for the Core series, with the ‘i’ disappearing from the product names.

14th Gen “Intel 300” processor will be out in Q3 2023.
Specs: 2 cores (2P+0E)/4 threads, 6MB L3 cache, P-core base frequency 3.9GHz, 46W. 🧐🧐🧐

“Intel 300”, the new naming convention, is the successor to Pentium Gold G7400.

— chi11eddog (@g01d3nm4ng0) August 8, 2023