Intel bases their code names off geographic features.
I.e. Tualatin was a Pentium III revision- but first it was a city in Oregon. Merced (the codename for Itanium way back) is a city in California, but it might also be in reference to Merced River. Nehalem (everyone's favorite next gen core) is also a river.
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How do they think of these codenames?
I would love to know as well. I would guess that while brainstorming, they take whatever the first thing they see is and add "ville" to the end.
One person was wearing a diamond ring.... They were looking out the boardroom window and saw a pine tree....
Yeah, really lame. My apologies.
Intel bases their code names off geographic features.
I.e. Tualatin was a Pentium III revision- but first it was a city in Oregon. Merced (the codename for Itanium way back) is a city in California, but it might also be in reference to Merced River. Nehalem (everyone's favorite next gen core) is also a river.