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The Meaning Behind Intel Code Names?
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!"
North northwest of Kirkland WA
Famous for being the namesake of the house brand at Costco and the home of Bill Gates.
That's what engineers used to stay up all night.
Katmicino was taken from a famous song by Cat Stevens. It's also a small town(the name in the song)just South of Katmandu. I visited Intel in the early 90's and they has this song playing in the elevators and lobby.
I sit beside the dark
Beneath the mire
Cold grey dusty day
The morning lake
Drinks up the sky
Katmocino I'll soon be seeing you
And your strange bewildering time
Will hold me down
Chop me some broken wood
We'll start a fire
White warm light the dawn
And help me see
Old satan's tree
Katmocino I'll soon be touching you
And your strange bewildering time
Will hold me down
Pass me my hat and coat
Lock up the cabin
Slow night treat me right
Until I go
Be nice to know
Katmocino I'll soon be seeing you
And your strange bewildering time
Will keep me home
92nd Street Dancers! Not as bad as the Boom Boom Room (East or West), but nothing to bother visiting... I happen to live about 30 blocks west on Foster.
And most of the Intel places I know of are in Hillsboro, not Tualatin, although there are a number of high-tech places there, some of which are my customers...
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All Intel code names are names of some geographical place because geographical locations can not be trademarked. There is no inner meaning, that is by design.
Intel legal has to approve every code name before it is used, to make sure code names don't match up with someone's trademarked name. Because the code names are used in trade press to talk about upcoming products, they are subject to trademark law. Because Intel makes lots of money, they are subject to legal colonoscopy.
The official process to name something entails the following actions:
- Open up MapQuest
- Find some geographical names.
- Compile the list of names into an email to Intel legal.
- Pray Intel legal picks one of the names you suggested.
- Name the project whatever Intel legal tells you in the emailed reply. If you're really lucky it will be one you suggested.
Cheers!I understand that the codenames are supposed to be geographical and local to the site from which the project ran, but wouldn't it be good if "Jayhawk" broke this rule and actually referred to the online cyberpunk/Shadowrun fiction of the same name? ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/frp/stories/jayhawk/
Tejas is the Spanish pronunciation of the Caddo Indian word "Tayshas" (Americanized spelling notwithstanding), which was their word for "friend" - the Caddo tribe was one of the major tribes in the Gulf Coast region during Spanish Imperialism, and were generally on good terms with the Spaniards.
I'm rather disappointed in many of the responses I've seen here. It seems like most people just googled answers, rather than actually knowing. For example, an earlier post said:
Tualain is also a burb of Portland
While this is true, I live in Hillsboro along with several thousand other Intel-ites, and Hillsboro is the tualatin valley, which was named after that tualatin river.
Interestingly enough, as I was taught in elementary school, tualatin is a Native American word meaning lazy or slow moving, as the tualatin river doesn't go very fast. I wonder if Intel thought about this when trying to come up with the name.