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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?"
And that is why they'd be able to trademark it. Can't trademark a number IIRC, which is why they opted for the Pentium name instead of 586. If it were actual Roman numerals, it would be a number and untrademarkable. Since it is nonsence, they can trademark it.
Sound like an explanatio to anybody else?
actually it was CVCC
But really, the "proper" 686 is the Pentium Pro and it is the Pentium Pro's feature set that was used as the foundation for the P2 (basically a P-Pro+MMX) and P3 series.
What the PPro brought to the table compared to the plain old Pentium was an independent cache bus, an extra execution pipeline, out-of-order execution and a bunch of other tweaks common in other architectures.
Sure there are supposed to be multicore P4s and Pentium Ms, but they are "hacked" together, not optimized for it. AMD's Opteron, on the other hand, has been designed for it from the start.
I can't argue the fact (and won't) that AMD designed their Opteron for dual-core from its inception, due to the memory controller, and today's P4's and PM's are not. However, you really should read up on the Cedar Mill and Smithfield platforms that Intel has announced. Sure the first dual-core procs they'll release will be two Prescotts welded together (presumably by running them next to each other...), but the true "dual-core" procs they intend to sell are designed from the beginning to be dual-core. I've seen one of the Cedar Mill processors running in the debug lab, and trust me, it's running much faster than the current procs, plus it's dual-core, and it consumes less overall power than today's single proc (think 5 GHz, dual-core, ~90 watts, vs. 3.6 GHz PSC, ~110 watts) and does not suffer from the memory bus starvation that the Xeon's currently die from. Intel has their designs right for their dual-core line.
> There is no such word in Turkish. Plus Turkish words never start with sound "V". In general sound "vee" is very rare in Turkish. FYI
This is not true. The closest word to "veev" would be "ve", which means and.
Also, Turkish words cannot have two identical vowels next to each other, going on what I remember about 4th Grade in a Turkish school.
But you are not thinking like Roman. The numbers make sense if you remember that they would have used an abacus for calculations -- so IV would mean de-incriment the ones column and increment the fives. Here is a nice site that talks a bit about the business aspects.