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?"

Comments

Pentium 6

[fembots]

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".

1. SBC Might Buy AT&T
2. Google Planning Web Browser?
3. Slashdot Considers Can-Dupe Act

See the trend?

Re:Pentium 6

[spac3manspiff]

Maybe it's Intel Inside VIIV' and 'Intel VIIV' with AMD inside.

Re:Pentium 6

[Altizar]

Maybe they are just really bored and decided to get a trade mark on something really stupid to see how the press would react.

Re:Pentium 6

[de1orean]

clearly, it's

\m/

or

PENTIUM R0x0RZZZZ!!!!11oneone

Re:Pentium 6

[Fred_A]

Obviously, Intel has branched into editors and will soon be releasing vi v. 4

This suggests that AMD uses Emacs.

Re:Pentium 6

[timeflux]

VIIV, ie, viiv, is a valid word [pronounced as veev] in turkish and it means "sucks".

Re:Pentium 6

[MarkGriz]

Or maybe Intel and Trent Reznor are trying to boost their popularity with a cross marketing campaign, and they really meant to trademark Pentium /VIV\

Re:Pentium 6

[Saiyine]

will soon be releasing vi v. 4

Do you mean viviv ?

Re:Pentium 6

[sharkey]

No, it's the Pentium VIIV, Lucy Carmichael's wacky neighbor. Remember the one where they got locked in the Northbridge with Mr. Memory?

Re:Pentium 6

[tetromino]

This suggests that AMD uses Emacs.

Good thing those new Opterons are almost fast enough to run it...

Or could it be . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

Intel's finally breached the barrier and will be releasing a 75-bit processor?

Intel Patented 64-bit and Dual Cores?

[Master Bait]

Or did they patent a process where they do it all with mayonaisse, mustard and pickles?

Spelled wrong

[mboverload]

They just spelled "Viva la AMD" wrong.

In other news today

[digitalgimpus]

Intel also registred:

MMDCL

which is the roman numeral for the temperature their new chip will run.

Re:Roman Numerals

[Samari711]

I bet the Romans are going to be pissed about this...

CVVC

[zakezuke]

Honda Inside.

Now known as the Civic.

Slashdot's new tag line

[BigWhiteGuy_27]

Slashdot - Speculation for Nerds. Stuff that Might Be.

Re:Slashdot's new tag line

[1lus10n]

Slashdot - Speculation about things that were posted before. Nerds bitching about stuff.

Slashdot - Now we are running low on stories. Someone post something quick !

Slashdot - Not really news. Might be someday.

gross conjecture

[Antonymous Flower]

"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?

Re:Roman Numerals

[Anonymous Coward]

yes the Intelites are going to be crucified.

Re:intel Trademarks

[InfiniteWisdom]

iDoubt iT. iAm thinking iMac, iPod, iTunes. iThink iTs a different company

Maybe you should read it like GNU

[Fortran IV]

VIIV -> "V Isn't IV" -> "Pentium 5 Isn't Pentium 4"

Re:Maybe you should read it like GNU

[photon_chac]

got to be "VIIV Isn't IV" meaning "we've got this something that's definitely not P4"

Intel sucks

[Doc Ruby]

No, it's a picture of a vampire's front teeth! Intel has been taken over by the biters!

MMX

[siliconjunkie]

They patented "MMX" as well. Perhaps they have something planned for 2010?

Re:Perhaps Intel has friends in high places...

[Em Ellel]

It's all in the font. It's a dubya can't y'all see that!?

V\/V

Would that not be tripya?

Re:Roman numerals aren't positional...

[Anonymous Coward]

You get the "No Shit Sherlock" award for the day. Thanks, retard!

VIIV

[njfuzzy]

Conclusive proof that Intel's marketing guys are idiots.

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

What?

[rbarreira]

From TFA:

Microprocessors, the central chip in computers, are among the most complex products ever produced by humankind, composed of hundreds of millions of microscopic switches that check e-mail and play video games.
Wow, so there are switches reading my e-mail and playing games when they should be processing? :(

Re:pentium 5

[Paladin128]

Continuing with your train of thought...

Pentium III is i686 + MMX + SSE
Pentium 4 is RISC on crack cocain
Pentium M is the result of a P4 knocking up a PIII

I knew it all along...

[haelduksf]

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.

Re:Roman numerals aren't positional...

[AJWM]

I meant to add:

So, given the above, the new Intel trademark stands for a chip that's about as good as a broken abacus.

Re:umm 8?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hintus I: Poblvs vil maecum favx shiti e latvs.
Hintus II: Sentvs ov hvmor.

(people will make faux shit in latin. SENSE OF HUMOR. who knows what intel is doing?)

Oh, and, I heard something about how global warming MIGHT be canceling out nuclear winter! Yay!

It's been Roman Numerals all along

[Namarrgon]

Ah, so clearly this is how the progression goes:

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.

Re:pentium 5

[gibson042]

Wait, what's this? There, in the title. Could it be Intel's next trademark? I think so! Everyone, gather 'round and welcome... the RePentium!!

Religious connatations noted and humorously approved.