Intel has decided to borrow the sequential naming scheme it used for its famous Pentium brand and apply it to the new Core line of chips, the company is expected to announce Sunday. Earlier this year, Intel released the Core Duo processor, and in a few months it will unveil Core 2 Duo processors. The Core 2 Duo name will be used for desktop chips based on the Conroe chip, as well as for notebook chips based on the Merom chip. Merom processors consume less power than Conroe chips, but they're otherwise very similar.
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Huh? : |...You don't know that a D820 has 2x1 Level 2 cache, a clock speed of 2.8 GHz, and a front side bus of 800MHz :p. I completely agree with you though. As I recall Intel decided to start naming their processors ridiculuos to "help" consumers. To that, 1 point for you sir. I'm looking forward to my next Gateway with it's Intel Core 2 Duo D8324245 Extreme Edition 
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why not take a hint from hollywood and do what they do with the movies.
"the Core" (first incarnation)
"return of the Core" (second incarnation)
"the revenge of Core" (third incarnation)
"i still remember what Core did last summer" (fourth in carnation
"I still remember the release of Core the summer before last" (you get the point)
after all this is on the same level of stupid as the naming scheme they actualy picked. i wonder how far this one got before they decided there euquily stupid idea should be the one they go with. 
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I thought the reason they went with the core duo name was to simplify things. By adding the 2 in there they are putting the new name right back into the same position it was before. It is like they hired a marketing company to fix their branding, took this company's advise as a one time change then handed everything back to the old marketing guys.
What is so bad about calling the new processor core duo as well. They already have numbers associated with the processors to differentiate different speeds, just increase those. If they really want to change something change the duo. Adding extra stuff to the name does not work. A good name should not be more than two words.
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What is so bad about calling the new processor core duo as well.
Because people who don't follow geek news would think that it's just more of the same, even though the Core microarchitecture is a big step forward compared to Yonah, bringing 64-bit mode, SSE4, and a wider and more clever (and thus faster) execution core.
Intel marketing's mistake here was to give the "Core" name to Yonah, even though "Pentium M2" or something like that would have been much more appropriate.
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If we follow the Pentium brand scheme, shouldn't it be
Core Duo 2
Core Duo 3
Core Duo 4?
Why would they put the # in the middle? "Core Duo" is the brand name so the version number should be at the end or something.
I guess Intel has not been making sense since the Pentium name (and then Viiv, etc)
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