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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2005-07-06
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.