Intel and it's strange names
Is it just me or is Intel starting to have stranger and stranger names? Let's see... there's the Itanium, which each time i pronounce it, it makes me feel like something's missing (i.e. the T for titanium, a much nicer word i.m.o.)
There's Vancouver, which the city itself i have nothing against (i was actually born there) , and anyone with it as a last name is probably a nice person, but it just has a horrible sound to it when associated to technology don't you find? Plus, it has some serious problems if i'm not mistaken..
Now the successor to the Celeron, it's codename is Timna. Which i'm sure means something very nice in an exotic language, but once again it really doesn't sound like it should be associated with technology.
Same goes for the i850 chipset, codenamed Tehama... which is probably once again has some great meaning behind it, but to me it just sounds wrong!
In the past (Further) there's the Katmai which really bothered me, same goes for the coppermine actually.. at first i thought it was a brilliant play on words but it just ended up getting on my nerves.
Now look on AMD's side, they've got the thunderbird and the duron, which myself, i think are righteously associated with technology.
Don't get me wrong here, I am not bashing Intel and putting a crown on AMD's head, but i am questionning the creative(uncreative?) minds that are behind Intel's names.
Anyhow it was just on my mind, after reading several articles both old and new about Intel and they're line of processors/motherboards.
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