Intel recently announced that the Pentium and Celeron brands will be eliminated from the notebook processor product line in 2023 and replaced by the new “Intel Processor” (Intel processor). Soon, the first products of the post-Pentium/Celeron era were revealed. In a startup log, the naming information of Intel Alder Lake-N series processors appeared:
Intel(R) N100 (family: 0x6, model: 0xbe, stepping: 0x0)
Intel(R) N200 (family: 0x6, model: 0xbe, stepping: 0x0)
In other words, the new processors will be directly called the Intel N100 series, and Intel N200 series, without any brand or serial identification.
This kind of naming is indeed very simple, but it is completely impossible to judge which product series it belongs to from the model alone. Of course, the naming of the Pentium and Celeron series has nothing to do with algebra in recent years, unlike the Core series.
Alder Lake-N is the lowest-end version of the 12th-generation Core, with only a maximum of 8 small cores and no large cores at all. In other words, it is equivalent to the previous Atom series. It is aimed at entry-level low-power desktops, notebooks, thin clients, NAS, embedded, etc.
In addition, it will also integrate Xe LP architecture core display, 32 execution units, support AV1, H.264, H.265 video codec, support 8K60 video output, and power consumption is expected to be 9-15W.
Some simulation tests show that the benchmark performance of the 12th-generation Core small core is roughly equivalent to 66% of the large core, the game performance is equivalent to about 70-80%, and the power consumption is much lower.
