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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. Pentium 6 by fembots · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Pentium 6 by Altizar · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe they are just really bored and decided to get a trade mark on something really stupid to see how the press would react.

    2. Re:Pentium 6 by Fred_A · · Score: 5, Funny

      Obviously, Intel has branched into editors and will soon be releasing vi v. 4

      This suggests that AMD uses Emacs.

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    3. Re:Pentium 6 by timeflux · · Score: 5, Funny

      VIIV, ie, viiv, is a valid word [pronounced as veev] in turkish and it means "sucks".

    4. Re:Pentium 6 by MarkGriz · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or maybe Intel and Trent Reznor are trying to boost their popularity with a cross marketing campaign, and they really meant to trademark Pentium /VIV\

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    5. Re:Pentium 6 by tetromino · · Score: 5, Funny

      This suggests that AMD uses Emacs.

      Good thing those new Opterons are almost fast enough to run it...

    6. 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.

  2. Or could it be . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Intel's finally breached the barrier and will be releasing a 75-bit processor?

  3. Spelled wrong by mboverload · · Score: 5, Funny

    They just spelled "Viva la AMD" wrong.

  4. In other news today by digitalgimpus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Intel also registred:

    MMDCL

    which is the roman numeral for the temperature their new chip will run.

  5. Slashdot's new tag line by BigWhiteGuy_27 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot - Speculation for Nerds. Stuff that Might Be.

  6. Re:Perhaps Intel has friends in high places... by Em+Ellel · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's all in the font. It's a dubya can't y'all see that!?

    V\/V

    Would that not be tripya?

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  7. Re:pentium 5 by magarity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.