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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. I'm betting on by Performaman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Pentium 525. Dunno why, but it just sounds right.

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  2. stackable design? by LiquidMind · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "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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    1. Re:stackable design? by MBCook · · Score: 3, Interesting
      I believe that this refers to the ability to "stack" the cores together, that is create multicore chips. Sure there are supposed to be multicore P4s and Pentium Ms, but they are "hacked" together, not optomized for it. AMD's Opteron, on the other hand, has been designed for it from the start.

      That's my guess. Literally stacking cores not only would have terrible heat problems, but how do you deal with all those pins? 478 per core (the Pentium V will probably use even more than that) is 956 pins. But you would have to have a socket for those dual core chips, and another seperate socket for the single core chips. Complicated. Either that or you'd have to use 956 pin sockets for ALL chips and just not use half the pins. Again, complicated.

      Natural dual/triple/quad/whatever core is my guess. Not hacked, but designed for it specifically.

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    2. Re:stackable design? by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I don't think dual core Intels will necessarily increase the number of pins. They can both be separate cores on the same bus, much like a Xeon DP system. With the interconnects so close, they don't need to lower the FSB clock to prevent signal issues. A one processor system, the clock can go higher because it acts like a point-to-point bus. A multiprocessor system with multiple processors on the bus is more complicated from a signal transmission line perspective.

  3. Reminds me by geneing · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Somehow this reminds me about another trademark "Pentax *ist" (a bunch of digital cameras). It's way too silly to pronounce that ("May I see that Pentax starist camera please...")

    The official explanation is that '*' can stand for anything you consider your are (like artist).

  4. Re:Or could it be . . . by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Interesting
    ... or a 6-bit pentium 4 ('cuz it will run cooler with fewer bits).

    It's probably for a quad-core p6.

  5. Perhaps... by natron+2.0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It could be a Pentium 5 with Intel Inside

    Example:

    V=5
    II=Intel Inside
    V=5

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  6. VI is the mirror image of IV... by hkfczrqj · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  7. Roman numerals aren't positional... by curious.corn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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  8. Re:pentium 5 by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Shouldn't they have moved to Hexium by now?

    With the Pentium IV they should have gone through Hexium, Heptium and Octium. They would be planning for the Nonium right now. Coming up would be Decium, Hendecium, Dodecium and Triskaidekium. Considering that, I guess I understand why they just stuck with the Roman numerals.

  9. Hope I'm not overstating the obvious... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    My guess the two II's between the V's stand for "Intel Inside".
    Intel Inside dual Pentium Fives (V's).

  10. IV is a mediaeval invention by Cardbox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.