Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th May 2006 19:15 UTC
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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Why don't they just stick to the codenames?
Because they're geographical names that can't be trademarked. That's of course why they're used for code names in the first place: to avoid potential clashes with other companies' trademarks.