tgdaily.com — Intel has made a final decision to get rid of one of its oldest and most valuable brands, sources told TG Daily: "Pentium," unveiled in 1993 for its P5 processor generation, will begin to quietly disappear in the current CPU generation such as the single-core 600 series as well as the D 800 and D 900 families.
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rojaroJan 15, 2006
this is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo old .... no digg
Closed AccountJan 15, 2006
This is s**t.and smelly s**t at that, not 'the s**t'
balazsJan 15, 2006
old
adolfojpJan 15, 2006
The Pentium name change was LONG OVERDUE. It originally referred to the actual chip being a 586. (Pent = 5 obviously) They didn't want to call it 586 because the competitors were already copying their previous names like 286, 386, 486. A trademarked Pentium(TM) name could not be copied.I was young and actually believed that there would be no Pentium II. I thought that there would be a Hexium instead. What are we using now, Octiums? :-P
rkonJan 15, 2006
No dig. Intel is sooooo past tense. I was working with some field engineers on Friday and they were reflecting back that they haven't touch a Pentium server in 6 months. AMD is kicking the snot out of Intel.
cquilliamJan 15, 2006
cheers to georgeb for his comment. I agree with you 100%. If you don't like the story, don't waste your time replying to it saying that you're not going to digg it. Seems rather foolish. I, myself, missed this story before, so i'm glad to come across it now that its actually finalized and not just speculation.