Rumor: Intel cancels Extreme Edition name

According to Intel veteran François Piednoël, Intel will stop using the Extreme Edition name for high-end processors. It is not known whether, and if so which name will replace Extreme Edition.

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​according to Piednoël Intel is about to drop the name. He calls it a big mistake. Piednoël was responsible for starting the Extreme Editions. He has worked at Intel as a principal engineer since 1997 and was one of the driving forces behind the introduction of Intel’s Skulltrail and high-end desktop platforms for gamers.

As an engineer, he helped develop the chip generations Katmai, Conroe, Penryn, Nehalem, Sandy Bridge, Skylake, Kaby Lake and Skylake-X. He left the chip company last year because he “no longer wanted to work at Intel.”

Intel’s first Extreme Edition processor dates back to 2004, when the company released the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. The Xeon MP-core chip was intended for gamers and was supposed to divert attention from AMD’s Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX, which were released a week later.

In the years that followed, many Extreme Editions followed, which were characterized by high performance and ditto prices. The latest is the Core i9-7980XE Extreme Edition.