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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?"
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".
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Intel's finally breached the barrier and will be releasing a 75-bit processor?
Or did they patent a process where they do it all with mayonaisse, mustard and pickles?
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They just spelled "Viva la AMD" wrong.
Pentium 525. Dunno why, but it just sounds right.
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Intel also registred:
MMDCL
which is the roman numeral for the temperature their new chip will run.
"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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I bet the Romans are going to be pissed about this...
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"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?
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?
VIIV -> "V Isn't IV" -> "Pentium 5 Isn't Pentium 4"
I figure by 2030 or so my 6-digit UID will be something to brag about.
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I'm surprised they've kept the "Pentium" trademark so long
That's like saying you're suprised Ford is still using the 'Mustang' name for some cars that have only loosest similarity to the first year Mustang. It's called 'Brand Awareness' and companies spend jillions on marketing campaigns to make consumers want [insert trademarked name here]. The name 'Pentium' is going to be used for as long as Intel can get mileage out of it.
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
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