Instead, Intel pursued a budget part that was to be pin-compatible with their high-end Pentium II product, using the Pentium II's proprietary Slot 1 interface. Although a faster Pentium MMX would have been a lower-risk strategy, the industry-standard Socket 7 platform hosted a market of competitor CPUs that could be drop-in replacements for the Pentium MMX. Intel's existing low-end product, the Pentium MMX, was no longer performance-competitive at 233В MHz. 2.10 Coffee Lake-based desktop CeleronsДЄs 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.2.5 Sandy Bridge-based desktop Celerons.Subsequent Celeron-branded CPUs were based on the Pentium III, Pentium 4, Pentium M, and Intel Core. Introduced in April 1998, the first Celeron-branded CPU was based on the Pentium II. This has been the primary justification for the higher cost of other Intel CPU brands versus the Celeron range. While some Celeron designs have achieved strong performance for their segment, most of the Celeron line has exhibited noticeably degraded performance. Celeron branded processors often have less cache or intentionally disabled advanced features, with variable impact on performance. They typically offer less performance per clock speed compared to flagship Intel CPU lines, such as the Pentium or Core brands. Celeron is Intel's brand name for low-end IA-32 and x86-64 computer microprocessor models targeted at low-cost personal computers.Д¬eleron processors are compatible with IA-32 software.

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