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The Meaning Behind Intel Code Names?

Posted by Cliff on from the have-fun-with-it dept.

Scozza asks: "In the name of science and decency, we have been trying to find the meanings of the code names used by Intel for their processors. The only problem is that we can't find links to a couple of names and would really appreciate it if Slashdot could help fill the blanks!"

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  1. Names... by Rheingold · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Tejas is the Spanish name for Texas. Cascades are our little stretch of mountains here in the Pacific Northwest. Tualatin is also a suburb of Portland, just to the south, part of the Silicon Forest. Tulsa also happens to be a sizable city in Oklahoma.

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    1. Re:Names... by fm6 · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Tejas is the Spanish name for Texas...
      As every Selena fan knows. And It shouldn't be news that Intel always uses geographic code names.

      This is an object lesson in how urban/web legends are born. Somebody hears about the Tejas Wicca Coven, and says "Aha! That must be where the Intel code name comes from!" So they publish lists like the one this story linked to, which look authoritative, but are just so much BS.

      Actually, I can't imagine any big company using a Wiccan name for anything. Not after the various problems Proctor and Gamele has had with "Satanism".

  2. No google? Atlas? by cft_128 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If ever I saw a need for doing basic research before asking slashdot. I don't want to sound that snotty, but not knowing Cascades but having the Willamete and Kalamath rivers? As someone else pointed out the Cascades feed them; any casual glance at a map would have revealed that.

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  3. Banias. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's simply a river in the Golan Heights.

  4. The Biblical References by drmerope · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The biblical codenames correspond to those chips coming from Intel's Engineering Facility in Israel.

  5. Intel: Marketing challenged. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To me, the overall meaning is that Intel is not good at marketing.