Intel and it's strange names

[jaggy]

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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[Sharky]

Strange code names are the order of the day, or so it seems eh? Still when you base them on river names....

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[Arcadian]

Originally posted by Sharky:
Strange code names are the order of the day, or so it seems eh? Still when you base them on river names....

Yeah, Intel uses names from rivers, towns, and mountain ranges from the West Coast (Oregon, mostly). At least it's better than the competition. Do you know a company by the name of Athlon makes bathroom stalls?

[petecloss]

Originally posted by Arcadian:
Yeah, Intel uses names from rivers, towns, and mountain ranges from the West Coast (Oregon, mostly). At least it's better than the competition. Do you know a company by the name of Athlon makes bathroom stalls?

I think "Sledgehammer" is a damn fine codename for once.


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[jaggy]

Originally posted by Arcadian:
Yeah, Intel uses names from rivers, towns, and mountain ranges from the West Coast (Oregon, mostly). At least it's better than the competition. Do you know a company by the name of Athlon makes bathroom stalls?

So in fact all of those who named the rivers and mountains on the west coast are to blame!
Shame on you! Shame! (directed at those evil name-giving people)

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[Warin]

Originally posted by jaggy:
So in fact all of those who named the rivers and mountains on the west coast are to blame!
Shame on you! Shame! (directed at those evil name-giving people)

Gee. Intel is HQ'd in Portland, Oregon.
Go figure that they might use local names. At least they chose Willamette instead of Eugene! Heheh.



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[Arcadian]

Originally posted by Warin:

Originally posted by jaggy:
So in fact all of those who named the rivers and mountains on the west coast are to blame!
Shame on you! Shame! (directed at those evil name-giving people)

Gee. Intel is HQ'd in Portland, Oregon.
Go figure that they might use local names. At least they chose Willamette instead of Eugene! Heheh.

Don't count Eugene out just yet... there are many more chips coming out that will need code names . I admit, though, they are getting stranger (and harder to say). Tejas, Cayuse, Gyserville, and Mendenhaul are some more names of future products... as you can see, the names get harder to say as you go along.... :0

[Warin]

Originally posted by Arcadian:
Don't count Eugene out just yet... there are many more chips coming out that will need code names . I admit, though, they are getting stranger (and harder to say). Tejas, Cayuse, Gyserville, and Mendenhaul are some more names of future products... as you can see, the names get harder to say as you go along.... :0

Heheh. You forgot Bend. I am surprised they havent used that one yet!



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[jaggy]

Originally posted by Warin:

Heheh. You forgot Bend. I am surprised they havent used that one yet!

All those names... those horrible horrible names! (well not that horrible i guess but i wouldn't put them on technology)

If Intel continues with weird and peculiar naming one day it will be they're undoing, i swear it will be

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[This message has been edited by jaggy (edited September 12, 2000).]

[Arcadian]

Originally posted by jaggy:
:Eek:

All those names... those horrible horrible names! (well not that horrible i guess but i wouldn't put them on technology)

If Intel continues with weird and peculiar naming one day it will be they're undoing, i swear it will be

LOL. I don't know about that. 99.999% of the world doesn't even know what Intel uses for internal names. If the engineers want to nickname their chips buttwipe and runnynose, I don't think it would make a huge difference .

[jaggy]

Originally posted by Arcadian:
LOL. I don't know about that. 99.999% of the world doesn't even know what Intel uses for internal names. If the engineers want to nickname their chips buttwipe and runnynose, I don't think it would make a huge difference .

Yes but at least if it was named buttwhipe and runnynose the general consumer could associate the names to something, not like these strange names that only oregonners know

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[MikeyB]

I hear the next names are from towns in England and Wales, standby for the 256 bit Chorlton-cum-Hardy and the 512 bit Llansantffraed-Cwmdeuddwr

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[nkeezer]

Originally posted by Arcadian:
If the engineers want to nickname their chips buttwipe and runnynose, I don't think it would make a huge difference .

LOL -- one of the funnier posts I've read on any board in quite some time.

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