Who the hell thinks of CPU names?!

[smtkr]

Having worked at Intel from June through December, I actually asked someone this question. I was told that they were supposed to be named after rivers. A river that flows through Portland, OR (near where I worked) is called Willamette. I thought it was pretty cool, but the new ones are not named after rivers. The guy I asked said he doesn't know what the hell they are doing now.

So, the answer to your question is that there used to be a system and now they are a bunch of retards. I can't speak for AMD though.

[Stringent]

Ah, but will it be Prime stable?

You know whoever makes this core, the other party will call one Megatron. That would be hilarious.

[schmunk]

Having worked at Intel from June through December, I actually asked someone this question. I was told that they were supposed to be named after rivers. A river that flows through Portland, OR (near where I worked) is called Willamette. I thought it was pretty cool, but the new ones are not named after rivers. The guy I asked said he doesn't know what the hell they are doing now.

Most of the new Intel cores have been designed in Israel, hence the yiddish-sounding names:

Banias
Dothan
Yonah
Sossaman
Merom
Oyvey


schmunk (p.s., although you might be thinking it, I'm not Jewish. Schmunk rhymes with something )