Intel has rebranded its Core i3 (and i5 and i7) line-up, ditching the iconic 'i' it's used for 16 years. It doesn’t change our advice, though. These chips are good for light work, and can easily ...

See Core M. The original microarchitecture of the Core i series was code-named Nehalem. Subsequent microarchitectures were Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, etc. (see Intel microarchitectures).

and Intel's quad-core Core i3-8100 (Coffee Lake, 4C/4T, 3.60 GHz, 6 MB cache, two DDR4-2400 channels, 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes, 65W, released in Q4 2017). While these processors belong to different years ...

Tiner didn't speculate on whether Intel's Xeon 5300 or AMD's upcoming quad-core processor would have the highest performance. "We expect similar performance when AMD comes out with its quad-core ...