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Intel Plans CPU Naming Change

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-pentium-by-any-other-name-would-smell-as-sweet dept.

Jemm writes "According to The Globe and Mail, Intel will start using performance numbers rather than clock speed to number their chips. 'Under the model number system, processors will be given numbers to describe their performance, in addition to being described as running at 2GHz or other speed.'"

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  1. Does anybody remember iCOMP? by Timbo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Older intel CPUs used a performance metric named iCOMP which was stamped on many CPUs. A bit of googling suggests this is still around. Perhaps this is another case of reinventing an old idea?

  2. Re:Payback by Yossarian45793 · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you don't get this joke, you haven't been here.

  3. Re:Problem.. by mikis · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not Duron, but older Athlon Thunderbird. And it does not mean "3.2 times faster than Duron", it means it is fast as 3200MHz TBird would be.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PR_rating