swaussie

I wonder if this a marketing ploy on Intels behalf or has the Pentium brand become synonymous with Slow, hot and requiring more power than a nuclear submarine

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/15/in...and/index.html

jpor

iTrader: (1)

Sort of makes sense really. Especially when the 3 main CPU manufaturers of the day were all using virtually the same branding to market their processors at the time. And the only way INTEL could patent their processors was by name. So when the 586 came along they decided to call their 586, the 'Pentium', to distinguish themselves from the others (AMD and CYRIX (Remember them?)). With the CPUs progressing past the standard x86 architecture I think they should give it a different name.