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Pentium-branded processors released from 2009 to 2022 are considered entry-level products that Intel rates as "two stars",<ref>{{cite web |title=Processor Names and Numbers |url=https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/processor-numbers.html |website=Intel |language=en-US |access-date=March 26, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Intel Processors |url=https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/processors.html |website=Intel |language=en-US |access-date=March 26, 2022}}</ref> meaning that they are above the low-end [[Intel Atom|Atom]] and [[Celeron]] series, but below the faster [[Intel Core]] lineup and workstation/server [[Xeon]] series. These later Pentium processors have little more than their name in common with earlier Pentiums, which were Intel's flagship processor for over a decade until the introduction of the [[Intel Core]] line in 2006. They are based on both the architecture used in [[Intel Atom|Atom]] and that of Core processors. In the case of Atom architectures, Pentiums are the highest performance implementations of the architecture. Pentium processors with Core architectures prior to 2017 were distinguished from the faster, higher-end i-series processors by lower [[clock rate]]s and disabling some features, such as [[hyper-threading]], [[Intel VT|virtualization]] and sometimes L3 [[CPU cache|cache]].