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New Intel Trademark Filed
jmanforever writes "Reuters is reporting that 'Intel Inside VIIV' and 'Intel VIIV' were filed as U.S. trademarks. The question is, what does VIIV mean? Could this be the Roman numerals for 6-4 indicating a 64-bit chip, or could this be the Roman numeral five twice, separated by two lines, indicating the dual cores of the Pentium 5 chip?"
Or maybe it's Pentium 6, performs like a Pentium 4? Similar to AMD XP1800+ is 1.5GHz but performs like a 1.8GHz Pentium.
Or maybe it's Pentium M2, after the success of Pentium M series. VIIV = upside down M with a II in the middle.
Or maybe it's Penitum 5 Dual Core? "Pentium V, 2 Inside"
Or maybe it's just a marketing stunt? Similar to Google's trademark application "Google R2D2".
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if it is pentium 5, it better be 64 bit.
It's LXIV for 64.
Why do we do all of this Apple rumormongering? I mean, really, with all of these stories about Apple making the front page, you'd think Slashdot was totally astroturfing on Apple, and completely ignoring making ridiculous conjectures about companies like Intel... ...oh wait.
OMG! Wau!
Intel's finally breached the barrier and will be releasing a 75-bit processor?
Or did they patent a process where they do it all with mayonaisse, mustard and pickles?
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They just spelled "Viva la AMD" wrong.
Pentium 525. Dunno why, but it just sounds right.
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six, four. Hmm I wonder if it's for a 64 bit chip.
I didn't think about the 5 II 5 interpretation, and I doubt the market who needs to know "intel inside" would understand the symbol either way.
64 would be LXIV, not VIIV.
Then again, once Marketing gets ahold of something, all logic goes out the window.
VI...IV - see, it's mirrored, hence 2 P4's.
/..\ or something.
It's probably not designed to be pronouced numerically, just as "Viv" or similar (Veev?).
If Slashdot was running on a dual core P4, it'd have to be known as
Most likely, it's both. Intel would be incredibly dumb to put out a new processor that wasn't 64-bit, considering where the market's heading. I think the VIIV is a clever piece of work, personally. (Although I'm more the G4/G5 type)
I am going to quick patent LXIV just in case...
Intel also registred:
MMDCL
which is the roman numeral for the temperature their new chip will run.
"The Pentium V is likely to fly along at between 5GHz to 7GHz, have 2MB plus of level two cache, be built on a 90 nanometer process, and have a stackable design." (Source, and another)
does anyone know what they mean by stackable design?
is this supposed to be taken literally? stacking one CPU on top of the other?
or just some buzzwords that mean nothing that this implies?
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VIIV
VII = 7 V = 5
75
7+5 = 12
1+2 = 3
75 is 3 * 25
5 is 2+3
VIIV is 525
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Last timed i check VIIV was roman numeral 8...
Dude, you just got modded up for regurgitating the write up! Apparently the mods don't even read that much before clicking away....
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Retard.
"The question is, what does VIIV mean? Could this be the Roman numerals for 6-4 indicating a 64-bit chip, or could this be the Roman numeral five twice, separated by two lines, indicating the dual cores of the Pentium 5 chip?"
After this and this I'm forced to the conclusion that these three stories are three points on a grid forming a triangle corresponding with the location of Atlantis. Could it mean Slashdot editors are from another planet? Could it mean open source is to the renaissance as ancient greece is to atlantis?
I'm sure thinking "VIIV" == "64" is neat and all, but isn't sixty-four LXIV?
I know, I know--doesn't look as symmetrical or "cool". Doesn't Intel look dumb enough these days without putting together nonsensical combinations of letters for marketing purposes and trying to pass it off as intellectually hip or something?
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
Thanks for establishing this for the 60th time.
Wizard: Yes, but since V minus I is 4 couldn't it also mean V minus VII is -2 Townspeople(confused): uh, yeah all right. Wizard: And what is the absolute value of -2 Townspeople(confused, scratching heads): uh, hmm... King Arthur: A duce!
I don't know but the two potential explanations offered by the poster are pretty smart. Congrats.
Does Intel still hold a trademark on lower case "i"? When I first saw that (maybe in the mid 80s), I didn't realize that much worse was to come in the whole trademark / patent / copyright area.
I wouldn't stick something like that on my dog, that trademark is garbage.
No way they'll really use that.
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VIIV -> "V Isn't IV" -> "Pentium 5 Isn't Pentium 4"
I figure by 2030 or so my 6-digit UID will be something to brag about.
No, it's a picture of a vampire's front teeth! Intel has been taken over by the biters!
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If V=P I=O then you have POOP !
It's perfectly clear that VIIV represents a row of teeth, of which the two outer ones are sharp fangs and the middle one is missing. That makes perfect sense for a company like Intel: vicious on the outside but kind of a hillbilly in the middle. Floating point errors, anyone?
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Next thing you know, http://www.nglpa.org/ will get a topic posted. SHEESH!
Ok, maybe this is a stupid thought, but could Intel VI IV be just Intel 64?
You know, since most people don't know what an L is in roman numerals, VIIV looks better than LXIV and PR people are always trying to be "cute".
It could be a Pentium 5 with Intel Inside
Example:
V=5
II=Intel Inside
V=5
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If these are meant to be roman numerals, they're aiming to pretty illiterate people :-P
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Maybe it is supposed to be pronounced vive so it ryhms with five.
Introducing the new Pentium VIIV, not to be confused with the Pontiac Vibe.
(When did Pontiac start making vibes anyway?)
It's the new Pentium 8 chip! V + IIV = VIII = 8.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
V is 5 IIV is 3 (although improper) so perhaps VIIV is 8? Although I think 64 is probably more likely to be the answer.
I dunno but I've got this image in my head of a wild-eyed man in a white coat standing over a chip with millions of volts coursing through it, shouting "Viiv! Viiiiiiiv!"
It's going to be dual core, everybody knows that... So if one core (a "Pentium IV" core) is the mirror image of the other, why don't call the other core "VI muitneP"?? Well, VIIV is much more appealing than "VI muitnePPentium IV" (the first P is supposed to be backwards)...
I'm thinking too much bull... I should go home.
viiv.com has already been registered...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Could this be the Roman numerals for 6-4 indicating a 64-bit chip, or could this be the Roman numeral five twice, separated by two lines, indicating the dual cores of the Pentium 5 chip?" ...or could this be a slow news day on Slashdot ? :58008:
It's all in the font. It's a dubya can't y'all see that!?
V\/V
Please excuse phoney U.S. accent. =D
Actually they already had such a chip, the "overdrive" if I'm not mistaken. It was just an extra chip you sat under your 486dx, it just clipped together.
Pentium I (duh), Pentium II (also duh), Pentium IIV (well, technically it's wrong), Pentium IV (again, duh), they all use I and V. Maybe a Pentium V as well?
It's simply their multiple core pentium 5.
Don't get hung up on the Roman Numerals.
What exactly do you mean by "Don't touch this button?"
I think supposedly(dispite my lack of an account) that it could be a Pentium 5 based off of some of the pentium 3 highpoints. This is jus my 2 cents. I don't know if it's because i run a P3 still. heh
It could be:
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Meaning, obviously, that this new Intel product is Less Than, Equal to, and Less Than
or
this new Intel Product is Greater Than, Equal To, and Greater Than
I think when we realize that it is being compared to AMD offerings, the orientation of the new trademark is obvious...
They patented "MMX" as well. Perhaps they have something planned for 2010?
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VIIV isn't VI(6E1)+IV(4E0). that's totally wrong. Romans used different letters to distinguish 1 (I), 5 (V), 10 (X), 50 (L), 100 (C), 500 (D), 1000 (M) You get magnitude relatives to the letter by subtracting (prefixing) or adding (postfixing) the preceding magnitude unit: 1 (I), 10(X), 100 (C) up to 3 symbols. That's a rough description mind you as this rule takes an exception on the 5* symbols which can't repeat (they're a sort of calculating cornerstone). Yeah it sucks, one wonders how they could get along commerce, taxes and precise civil engineering calculations with this method. So, an intel 64 should read "intel LXIV"... if they really intend to pursue this nomenclature we'll have a glorious laugh over here. (I'm typing from less than 1 mile away from the Appia Antica)
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It's Intel's version of \m/ But I think they're taking the Internet "surfing" metaphor too far.
...they wrote a routine to convert binary to Roman but unfortunately they used a floating point divide on one of their own CPUs and for some reason the letters came out funny...
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VII+V=12
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Obviously this caught the attention of some rather clever people, who have succeeded in finding positions of influence in Intel and whos goal is to restore women to their rightful place. Thus, the new logo
VIIV
is two women holding hands. For Intel's next offering I expect we will see
VXV
A new view of SMP, no?
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Everyone's getting it all wrong. It's going to be a Pentium -2 (negative 2)
Searched TARR webserver with 2 results for VIIV. They both say the same, heres one result: Serial Number: 78534023
It's actully a Pentium5 (V), but 3-bit processor (IIV).
Rumour has it they want to break their former record of their hugely succesful 64-bit platform, and sell this specially tailored box-breed to the third world.
The expected sales to North-Korea alone would be so astonishing, the entire country will see a 300% increase in boxes. With their 5 boxes in total, they would become a major player on the communistic market!
And the best thing is, the USA has approved the sales, for some unknown reason. The last time it was permitted if they could sell 3-bit puters to a communistic country, it was refused! Amazing how a new wind blows withing the USA government... Which such tolerance, war will be abolished from the world real soon, no doubt!
It would have shipped much sooner (originally planed for newyear, actually), but at the last minute, it was decided the boxes had to be tsunami-proof. Obviously, this caused some delay.
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It's just intel leaking info that they're getting ready to release a G5-based laptop.
Just like x86 ISA still supports BCD, they are adding new roman numeral instructions. (That work incorrectly.)
it should be Pentium IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIII. That would be cool plus everyone understands it immediately. Is there any confusion as to what this number is? No, there is not.
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Let me take a stab at the origin of Intel's "VIIV" trademark...
...[does Google Search]...
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This is Intel's name for virtual machine inside a virtual machine.
(and by the way, I believe it is based on stolen intellectual property)
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VI Is Vomit.
:)
Well, that's popular opinion in my head anyway.
I'm betting on Pentium 5 being what intel will brand their indivudual cores and the 2 will imply dual cores.
Kinda like: 5 to 5
It also gives them room later on to do a Pentium 545 with quad cores.
VIIV 6th generation pentium 4; which supports 64bit.
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Or maybe what they really want to do is start a new campaign based on the slogan "Intel VNV Nation" and this is just a first step.
It could happen.
Intel Inside VIIV? Who is VIVian and why is Intel inside her?
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On the first generation of the dual core chips, they designed one processor core (a prescott with some interconnects between chips), and they mirror one of the cores backwards so that the interconnects line up. Thus VI is IV backwards. It also happens to be 64, thats just some synergy.
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I don't know about the II
Will we finaly have processors that can do roman numeral math? It's about time!!! Finally new technology and no longer is it all about the gigahertz (they must have learnt their lesson).
Also the pronounciation, is it "Viv"? If so then I wonder if the chip will also have a job in the mornings at the local greacy spoon and finally start paying for some of that electricity bill!!!
One also wonders (not me though) if the "New" Roman numeral system will be used in which 64 would be represented as IIIIIIXXXXXXX which would look a lot cooler on the top of the processor, way better than VI IV but most importantly is also a very curious set of answers to the next ballot in my area. hmmmm,
who freaking cares, i guess today slashdot is a rumor site that likes posting dupes
A patent isn't the same thing as a trademark (you're not new here so you should know this by now).
And MMX was an acronym for Multi-Media eXtensions, back from the days when the marketspeak du jour was computers that were "multi-media systems" (cf the later buzz for "internet ready").
What temp will Diamond take. Ie a Diamond chip with Diamond cooling. They can run hot just cannot recall what temp with the Diamond before explode/melt.(will have to be covered in something so it cannot burn something like spacecraft covering over the hotest points ie the melt increase presure breaking the casing causing rapid burn ie explode.)
Note diamond is alot cheeper to make than using platinum or Tungston.
Intel doesn't understand roman numerals.
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80286 = "286"
80386 = "386"
80486 = "486"
80586 = "Pentium" (faux latin for "Five")
80686 = "Pentium II" (fault latin + roman numberals for five-two)
Followed by... (in no particular order)
Celeron = cheap processor, faux latin for "fast" (based on, well, a whole lot of different actual Pentium chips dumbed down)
Xenon = Noble gas... Totally inert
Pentium III
Pentium 4
Itanium
So, duhh... of course the next one is Pentium VIIV
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This from Amd is ment to take upto 8 chips Dual Core ie 16 processors.
I guess Intel can get away with not incearsing pins. But Amd will control the high end market. And 939 chips are just 940 chips without a pin. Ie chips that would not work well with other chips ie rejects from the server world are still perfectly find for home use.
Basicly Amd is trying only to mantain 2 chip types long term. Ie server class Operion Amd64. Low end Samprom.
940 have 3 hyperchannels on the motherboard duels have a fourth hyperchannel between the 2 cores. Most 939 boards only have 2 hyperchannels. Please note each hyperchannel is a bus so AMD chips only start swaping the bus after they get past 3 chips ie half current motherboards of AMDs is not used so duel amds will have a bus each in single chip setups.
Ie one channel is used for controling the use of the bus so there is not crashs single chips don't need to talk to get permission to use a bus.
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Being unable to keep up with the competition, Intel released a less powerful, but completely groundbreaking processor, the 53 bit processor, they simply added several multiples of two and came to this conclusion... if we can't keep up to Moore's law, we might as well try our damndest!
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This is obviously the export only version. In Rome, a re-branded, but functionally identical processor will be available.
If, for some reason, Intel was working on a chip that would be labled "W", the next generation of that chip would be W2. A graphic artist may overlay the roman numeral two over the center of the W, so it looked like VIIV.
Of course, this theory falls to pieces if Intel doesn't actually have a prospective "W" chip.
So, duhh... of course the next one is Pentium VIIV
Based on your comment, I've decided that the Pentium VIIV should thus forth be pronounced 'Pentium Flivvle'
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It'll be a new heterogenous multiprocessor. It'll combine two Pentium 5's and two Pentium's on a single chip. You'll need the 2 P5's to satisfy Longhorn, leaving the Pentium's for running your spyware.
Now Intel is admitting it! VI=6 V+I+I+V=12 (6+6) Thus, 666. Obviously. On an ironic sidenote, they will be hot as hell.
V 'eye' V Sounds like five to me.
I think it is pronounced Vii v which sort of sounds like vibe. Hence it is the pentium Vibe Think of the advertising campaigns they can do with it! It also sound a bit like five. So it could be "get the intel inside pentium five vive. The only processor that allows you to do all your media editing and viewing tasks!" I wonder if it is going to speed up the internet, I mean we have not had any update in the speed of that since the Pentium 3 apparently did! :p
And for those of you saying why don't they change the Pentium brand name it is very clear. Unless they have a huge problem with it and everyone starts hating it they will keep it. I sell laptops and you would be amazed at the number of people who say to me "I don't want that laptop, it is not a pentium" while they are pointing at a centrino laptop! They should have called it the Intel Pentium Centrino!
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Although I believe the VIIV = 64 might be likely. I think it could also be Voice 2 Voice telecommunications chip.
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I was under the impression you couldn't trademark a number, IE thats why Intel started using the word "Pentium" rather than 586. VIIV is a number in Roman Numerals and =10 VI is SIX and IV is FOUR. SIXTY FOUR in Roman numerals would be LXIV. So it looks like some dickhead marketeer thinks VIIV looks clever as 64 but it's actually 10.
How cool will it be if it means P4 core and Dothan Core (P5?) on the same chip which on the fly will determine which Core is most suited to the task at hand and balance the workload more efficiently.
Pentium..........(original)
Pentium II.......(twice as good)
Pentium III......(3x as good)
Pentium IV......(4x as good)
Pentium M.......(1000x as good)
Pentium MMX.(2010x as good)
Apparently the Pentium III-M and IV-M were fairly good chips too.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
Some jackass at Intel was reading /. (instead of tring to make their processor un-suck), took a look at all of us losers with too much time on are hands and decided to give us a really mystery to ponder.
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My guess the two II's between the V's stand for "Intel Inside".
Intel Inside dual Pentium Fives (V's).
Wasn't the cryptography of the new Intel chips names enough. Now they're taunting us with cryptoquips
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VIIV is actually an acronym signifying the current state of things at Intel.
..yeah Intel is going nowhere !
VIIV =
It turns out that Intel is creating an evil mirror universe twin of VI. It will use Clippy's CLI-based cousin VIgor! The editor will be embedded in the processor itself and will constantly offer suggestions whether you're running Windows or Linux. ("I see you've booted your computer, would you like to edit your Quicken folder with VIIV?")
The implications are mind-boggling. However, all is not lost. This could be the event that finally leads to a cease-fire in the vi-emacs flamewar. Both sides will put aside their differences and unite to stop the spread of the evil VIIV editor! Unite now! Stop VIIV before it edits you!
And remember: many Bothans died to get this information.
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Pentium VIIV
where V + IIV = VIIV
5 + 3 = 8
Pentium (original) was a 586
Pentium Pro the 686
Pentium II the 786
Pentium III the 886
Pentium IV the 986
Pentium M a stripped down version of the Pentium IV so it is a 936
So VIIV is the new 1086 with a two eyes (think 'I's). The question is where did all the other models from Pentium V to VII go?
All of these roman numbers are making me think about Ceasar and the Ides of March.
Like those case badges that read Evil Inside
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VIIV =
5115
525
514
53
615
64
75
paintball
What happens if you think about it interms of e-commerce. It might be V2V. A new e-commerce app their going to throw at us.?? Vehicle 2 Vehicle? Volts 2 Volts? Or with a russian accent... failure 2 fabulous
...it is both of the things mentioned in the post.
VIIV =
64 bit chip
with
2 Cores
2 P5's and 64 bits...
Some marketing guy/gal at Intel is hugging himself/herself over this one.
AFAIK:
:P
1. Their runes were made to be inscribed on wood. (Hence for example no curved lines. And no horizontal lines, which would be along the fiber and split the wood.)
2. They had no numerals at all.
Considering that they did a LOT of trading, seems to me like bookkeeping was a royal pain in the arse. Think about carving on wood something like "Sold two hundred fifty seven furs for one thousand seven hundred sixty eight coins". Sounds to me like an accountant back then needed serious physical condition
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They're obviously talking about a conversation between Kirk and Scotty. Kirk: Scotty, we've got 10 seconds to live and the only thing that can save us is to know the name of the Computer! Scotty: Pentium. Five. I. I. five. Kirk: Of course! The Drunken Captain's Secret Code! Five more shots and the confirmation of them! Plenty of them, infact! "Pentyum Five. Aye-aye, five!" I have the answer, godlike being! GB: Wrong! *Enterprise blows up.*
Isn't that -2?
VIIV is one of the worst marketing names I can imagine.
obviously, irrefutably, vampire fangs.
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Obviously, life in America drives you bonkers. Intel needs to send some of its high-ups to Europe for a holiday, so they can experience reality.
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My other processor is big-endian.
I mean I know this is slashdot where anything about Microsoft and Intel are belittled and mocked, however is there anyone with an I.Q. higher than 50 on here?
This is why I only visit slashdot once a month.
Too many mental midgets thinking they can actually use a computer.
Maybe their plan is to trademark the *word* "VIIV" to get -- in practice -- an exclusive right to the *numerals* V, VI, and VII (which can't be trademarked by anybody because they are numerals).
Maybe I am not a trademark lawyer and am happily talking out of my ass, though.
Close, but no cigar. AMD's web page says the "1000" performance reference point is a 1000 MHz *Duron*, as measured by their special suite of application benchmarks. (It really is quite a diverse boatload of them -- good for AMD!) Can't be bothered to dig it up and link, sorry.
Calling the 64-bit chip the VIIV would be fantastically idiotic marketing. They called their 586 the Pentium -- it sounds cool and has some logical basis ("pent" as in "5"). They liked it so much, they kept it even for the 686, 786, and 886 (which by all rights should be the hexium, septium, and octium). They instead called it the Pentium 2/3/4 because it's obvious which is best. VIIV is either unpronounceable or, if pronounced "veev", merely sounds ridiculous. Keep in mind this company likes names like Itanium, Centrino, Celeron, etc. No, they will not be releasing any "Veev" anytime soon. They likely will just call it the [something] 64, and 64 will be written in arabic numerals because people won't know what the hell VIIV is supposed to be -- we certainly don't, and it's not even a valid roman numeral. LXIV is 64, IIRC. As for VIIV being some sort of graphic representation of a new CPU structure, that can't be true either, again due to the reasons mentioned above.
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It clearly indicates that it is broken too...(/. space?)
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If you live that close to the Via Appia Antica then you can pop out and look at the tombs at lunchtime (give Cecilia Metella my love) and check the story I heard from a classics don that IV and IX and XL were mediaeval contracted notations for IIII VIIII and XXXX and the ancient Romans never used them.
Incidentally, Roman numerals were used in written contracts for quite a long time after we started using Arabic ones for calculation, because it was harder to alter the amounts fraudulently after they'd been written.
...the Pentium Pro! Wonder where that fits!!!
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Wow, none of you smartypants slashdotters know how to read roman numerals.
Will code a sig generator for food
5 or 5. Choose wisely
"Can't trademark a number IIRC"
Well then that would explain why google is spelled wrong.
Dual-core P5: five-bi-five
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Next is the R.I.P. Nice to see a monster start to fall though. Maybe the borg will follow.
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seeing as how about the only 'v'-related thing in a processor would be a vector unit, and P2P is such a buzzword as of late (which seems to be redifining cliche naming conventions (eX, iX and now X2X)), that this probably means the have some new vector unit related technologies, and the marketing guys had a focus group party to come up with some new drivel.
The original poster seems to have missed other
interesting trademark options being held open
such as "Intel Inside F00F" and "Intel F00F".
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Just as I thought.
They're systematically patenting all roman numerals in a plot to capture and rebuild the ancient Roman empire!
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"I think whoever it was flunked Roman numerals in grade school," said Nathan Brookwood, the head of technology consulting firm Insight 64.
Check the source of their home page for any 1 pixel x 1 pixel images. That'll tell us for sure what they're up to.
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I guess this means they want to brand one of their 64-bit chips as the Pentium "five", which "viiv" sounds a bit like if you're a moron. Move along folks, nothing to see here...
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I suppose some of you have learned something about Roman numerals. They are in order, from left to right, small numbers to the left of a larger are to be subtracted. This means, that:
VIIV = 5 + (5 - 2)
or 8!!! and not 64, unless you're blind dumb and stupid, which I wouldn't be surprised if the Intel Inside gang turned out to be.
Well considering this guy works for Intel I would have to guess the new trademark means two or four Pentium chips duct tape together./
http://www.doyousnap.com/portal/albums/7/114.aspx
There has been a lot of interesting speculation on the item - a good collection here:
r ch ives/002939.asp
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/implementation/a
The1Genius - Littera Scripta Manet
It's obvious that they just mirrored the roman numerual 'IV' because it will be 2xPentium4 processors.
I think this (filed in Canada) rules out the "two Vs separated by lines" theory:
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http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/1243/trdp124330200e
Maybe they released info about their new patent. So, they can google it for good Ideas. ie. they don't know yet.
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