Intel's New Core i5-110 Revives 5-Year-Old 14nm Comet Lake Architecture

Did you hear about the new Intel CPU? No, not the Arrow Lake refresh; that's not out yet. It's the Core i5-110, a model name so confused and absurd that it almost matches the absurdity of this product's existence. That's right: the brand-new Intel Core i5-110 is in fact an LGA 1200 Comet Lake processor from 2020 that has been re-branded and re-launched for reasons only Intel knows.

We've basically told you the story, but let's go over the facts. The Core i5-110 is a 6-core / 12-thread processor based on Intel's decade-old Skylake architecture that has a base frequency of 2.9GHz and a boost frequency of 4.3GHz. It has 12MB of L3 cache, a 65W TDP, and supports two 64-bit channels of DDR4 memory at 2666MT/s. It includes Intel UHD Graphics 630 at up to 1.1GHz, and it supports ...