According to Neowin , Pentium and Celeron have been Intel's low-end CPU lines aimed at the budget PC segment with basic specifications for decades. Last year, the company announced that it would be phasing out the "Pentium" and "Celeron" branding for its mobile CPU line. As a result, Intel has not released any Pentium and Celeron SKUs for laptops since early 2023.

While the Pentium and Celeron CPUs have disappeared from laptops, they are still used on desktops, at least until the 12th generation Alder Lake series. However, things may soon change as a leak from a user on the social network X suggests that Intel is working on a new branding called "Intel 300" for its dual-core CPUs. The dual-core concept suggests that this CPU will include two P cores and be able to operate at four threads thanks to hyperthreading. This P core is clocked at 3.9 GHz with a power consumption of 46W.

This means that the company will continue with its trend of not offering any E (power-efficient) cores in its low-end desktop CPUs. Perhaps Intel feels that hybrid core designs are not worthy of such low-core-count PC systems, especially for desktops. However, the “outdated” design in Intel 300 CPUs may make it unable to meet the new requirements that Microsoft has set for Windows 11.

The new naming update for Pentium and Celeron CPUs isn't the only thing Intel is doing as the company also plans to introduce a new Core Ultra name without the "i" on its 14th generation CPU line, or Meteor Lake.