No ty. AMD Ryzen is better.

I said this elsewhere, but this is probably being done for OEMs and not the DIY consumer facing market. Intel probably has extra silicon (already made, or scheduled and to be devoted?) and selling it is better than scrapping it. The OEM's will appreciate the rebrand because it sounds newer and better to uninformed consumers than the old name would in 2025. It will probably go into low end PCs and a 10400 will still be perfectly fine for a general use role for years to come.

The pricing being the same, five years later, is another clue this isn't "meant" for consumers. The OEMs will likely not be buying it at that price and will get a volume discount. It obviously wouldn't be "worth it" at that on-the-books price.

So yes, it's silly that "Comet Lake is being released in 2025", but it's probably more of a nothing-burger due to what its real purpose most likely is.

Originally posted by Illusion of Progress:

and selling it is better than scrapping it.

Yeah AMD have had a good run on this 5800X3D came and went but then a 5700X3D from all the silicon left that didn't quite make the grade and just recently a small batch of 5600X3D using the rest that can be used, better than going to landfill i think.

New Core 5 is more than fine for mum and dad or office Dell PC's rather than scrapping it.

Originally posted by wing0zero:

Originally posted by Illusion of Progress:

and selling it is better than scrapping it.

Yeah AMD have had a good run on this 5800X3D came and went but then a 5700X3D from all the silicon left that didn't quite make the grade and just recently a small batch of 5600X3D using the rest that can be used, better than going to landfill i think.

New Core 5 is more than fine for mum and dad or office Dell PC's rather than scrapping it.

The thing is.. what purpose this CPU actually serves?
Cause instead of paying that premium for the rebranded 10400. the i3 14100 costs less and will be a much better product for that segment of the market
Yes, it will be 4 cores/8 threads but most applications that office PCs use will benefit far more from having much higher single core performance instead of having 2 more cores. if anything the increase in IPC will offset that core count difference

Originally posted by Lixire:

Cause instead of paying that premium for the rebranded 10400. the i3 14100 costs less and will be a much better product for that segment of the market

That's the thing; what premium? Intel may list it at the same $200 MSRP that the 10400 had back in 2020, but I get the impression that isn't going to be the actual price OEMs pay for the very reason you are bringing up; such a price is not competitive in 2025 for that level of performance. Therefore, Occam's razor would have me believe there likely isn't a premium and that they will be sold to OEMs for less than the listed MSRP, as usual.

The Core i3 14100 is $110 (Micro Center) or between $120 to $130 (elsewhere).

The Ryzen 5 5500 might be a better comparison because it's the same core count and is closer in core performance. It's only slightly faster than the 3600X... which is a relatively close comparison to the 10400. The 5500 is ~$75 on Amazon sold by a third party (but AM4 is drying up so I don't know how reliable of a marker that is).

So it could be closer to half the listed price that OEMs would pay, give or take, but it's really hard to make guesses for volume OEM deals based on retail pricing of single boxed CPUs. For example, these would likely be sold by the tray and might come without cooling (OEMs may use their own cost cutting replacement for that), so they might be even cheaper.

But in short, there probably isn't a premium or else they wouldn't have appeal.

For the consumer market, if these show up at MSRP, they are of course not worth choosing.

Yeah Intel have been renowned for their OEM deals on bulk for decades.