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New Intel Trademark Filed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gross-conjecture-reigns dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Learn you Roman numerals by painandgreed · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... but it can't be any of those, including 6 4, because that's not how roman numerals are composed. VIIV is nonsense as a roman numeral.

    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?

  2. Re:stackable design? by pjbass · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Pentium 6 by ntufar · · Score: 3, Informative

    > 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

  4. Re:Pentium 6 by altan · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.