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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. Learn you Roman numerals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's LXIV for 64.

    1. Re:Learn you Roman numerals by IWannaBeAnAC · · Score: 0, Redundant

      I dunno. To me, LXIV looks like Roman Numerals for 64, and VIIV just looks stupid.

  2. Roman Numerals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    64 would be LXIV, not VIIV.

    Then again, once Marketing gets ahold of something, all logic goes out the window.

  3. Re:Pentium 8?? by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 0, Redundant

    IIV != 3
    III = 3
    IV = 4
    V = 5

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  4. Wrong notation by crush · · Score: 0, Redundant
    If it's Roman Classical numerals then it's got to be either:
    • LXIV
    • LXIIII
  5. They're a little late... by Locke2005 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    viiv.com has already been registered...

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  6. Re:Pentium 8?? by OverlordQ · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Erm no? VIII is 8, VIIV makes absolutely no sense as a Roman Numeral.

    I - 1
    II - 2
    III - 3
    IV - 4
    V - 5
    VI - 6
    VII - 7
    VIII - 8
    IX - 9
    X - 10

    see here

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  7. Re:umm 8? by SenorMooCow · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But 64 is LXIV (50+10-1+5).

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