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AMD Plants Turion Line of Mobile Chips

Posted by michael on from the watch-it-grow dept.

dsginter writes "Today, AMD has blessed us with their Turion line of chips. Though it is supposed to compete with Intel's Centrino line, with such a name, one has to wonder if AMD is going after the Celeron, the name of which is derived from the latin word, 'celer', meaning 'fast' or 'swift', as in 'celery' - the fastest of all vegetables."

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  1. Re:If the Celeron is named after celery... by chowdmouse · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Well according to the Michigan Asparagus Advisory Board an asparagus planting is typically harvested after 3 years. Celery in your typical home garden is ready to cut after 90-120 days (according to this information from UC Davis.)

    So it looks like Celeron takes it. You should sell your AMD stock now.

    It is amazing where Slashdot takes me some days.

  2. CentTurion? by Lispy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think they were after a pun for the ancient roman general: The Centurion

    Centrino - Turion

    This makes more sense to me than the celery ananlogy.