Background
As a product concept, the Celeron was introduced in response to Intel's loss of the low-end market, in particular to the Cyrix 6x86, the AMD K6, and the IDT Winchip. Intel's existing low-end product, the Pentium MMX, was no longer performance competitive at 233 MHz. Although a faster Pentium MMX would have been a lower-risk strategy, the industry standard Socket 7 platform hosted a market of competitor CPUs which could be drop-in replacements for the Pentium MMX. Instead, Intel pursued a budget part that was pin-compatible with their high-end Pentium II product, using the Pentium II's Slot 1 interface.
Intel hired marketing firm Lexicon Branding, which had come up with the name "Pentium", to devise a name for the new product. The San Jose Mercury News described Lexicon's reasoning behind the name they chose: "Celer is Latin for swift. As in 'accelerate.' And 'on.' As in 'turned on.' Celeron is seven letters and three syllables, like Pentium. The 'Cel' of Celeron rhymes with 'tel' of Intel."
| Intel Celeron processor family | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desktop | Laptop | |||||||
| Code-named | Core | Date released | Code-named | Core | Date released | |||
| Covington Mendocino Coppermine Tualatin Willamette Northwood Conroe-L |
(250 nm) (250 nm) (180 nm) (130 nm) (180 nm) (130 nm) (65 nm) |
April 1998 August 1998 March 2000 October 2001 May 2002 September 2002 June 2007 |
Mendocino Coppermine Tualatin Northwood Yonah-512 Merom Penryn |
(250 nm) (180 nm) (130 nm) (130 nm) (65 nm) (65 nm) (45 nm) |
January 1999 February 2000 April 2002 June 2002 April 2006 January 2007 September 2008 |
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| Prescott Cedar Mill |
(90 nm) (65 nm) |
June 2004 May 2006 |
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| Banias Dothan Yonah Merom |
(130 nm) (90 nm) (65 nm) (65 nm) |
January 2004 August 2004 April 2006 January 2007 |
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| Allendale Wolfdale Clarkdale Jasper Forest |
dual (65 nm) dual (45 nm) dual (32 nm) single (45 nm) |
January 2008 August 2009 January 2010 February 2010 |
Merom Penryn Arrandale Sandy Bridge |
dual (65 nm) dual (45 nm) dual (32 nm) dual (32 nm) |
July 2008 June 2009 March 2010 March 2011 |
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