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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. 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.