It was more that 15 years ago that Intel delegated Pentium and Celeron as the mid and low tier of processing solution for computers and got the Core series in which has traditionally 3 offerings as Core i3, i5 and i9 for consumers and power users.

But, starting with Meteor Lake, there will no longer be an “i” and also there will be no reminder that it will be a “14th Gen”.

Meteor Lake series will be period of changes as Intel confirmed to The verge and mainly its naming scheme.

“When we looked at how the tech press, how our retailers, our OEMs, our partners talk about it, it was interesting to see how we got short changed all the way to a letter and a number."

You might say that the naming doesn’t change the fact that they are in a race where AMD with Ryzen has catchup and probably went ahead, but a perspective of image and public relationship, Intel does try to turns things around and pretty much making people to not associate the last 10 years as minimum with what they are doing now is what makes me think is for the best.

While it acknowledged the confusion with Apple and how the “i”  is heavily used on their products, I believe another reason for dropping the letter is to actually have people accepting that Apple retaking Intel processors for Mac computers each year is less and less probable and it is time to move on.

Also, removing the “X Gen” banner from their name, helps consumers not feel “out dated” when at this time it is ok to buy Gen 12 and onwards if Gen 14 is not on your budget. 

With this, the rebanding states that there will be two new families, the “classic” Intel Core series and the new Core Ultra series which by the name, these are the processors for big taks outside office and probably the tier that gamers will be looking for in the future.