Pentium no longer being used?

[iBot]

are all the new intel chips just being called core? or core2?

That sucks, pentiums a funny word

They should be called "Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo <Model/speed/w/e>"

 

[pcAnywhere]

I don't think Intel would see adding "Pentium" to the Core name being a good marketing tool... tarred with the same brush would be their concern

The Pentium is dead, long live the pentium...

 

[Drazic]

Indeed long live Pentium as i just got an olc school P4 EE off ebay to build a rig up with just for the hell of it. The OC on these is uber simple and really rewarding!

 

[jbloggs]

I have a P4 3.2GHz Prescott (socket 478) on an Asus P4C800 mobo with 2GB of Ram, and for a single core system, it is still quite decent.

 

[allllec]

Yas, Intel announced some time back that they where to drop the Pentium name... where a few posts about it a couple of months back

 

[Corasik]

Apparently Intel were in many minds about the future names of its chips, before Pentium II was released intel actually registered the trademark Sexium.

However, logically after Pentium, it should have been Hexium.

In the end they just got boring, P2, P3, P4. To be honest Core2 isnt really a very interesting name either, but at least its an interesting product

 

[Reality|Bites]

I thought they couldn't name it the Pentium 5 due to the first Pentium architecture being named P5 or something like that,

 

[Mr-White]

new architecture new name...may the pentium live on in our hearts

MW

 

[NathanE]

The irony is, Core 2 Duo has more in common with the P6 "Pentium" architecture than NetBurst did Yet NetBurst's were called "Pentium 4"...

Marketing departments suck.

 

[Soul Rider]

If i'm not mistaken, the P4 chips are now called "Core" and the Conroe/Allendales and the like are called "Core2"

Hence the Pentium D that I bought which has been badged as a "Core" processor...

There was me thinking all processors had a core...

 

[pcAnywhere]

And that's before all the confusion about CoreDuo and Core2Duo..

 

[Tetras]

Pentium brand lives:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5917

 

[Quixote]

If i'm not mistaken, the P4 chips are now called "Core" and the Conroe/Allendales and the like are called "Core2"

Hence the Pentium D that I bought which has been badged as a "Core" processor...

There was me thinking all processors had a core...

You are mistaken. Core was only released on laptops, it was an evolution of the Pentium M, with Dual-core (Core Duo) & single core (Core) models. It was superior to the desktop Pentium chips but not as good as the Core 2 Duo chips.
Of course, you are corect in saying that all CPU's are or have cores.
Your pentium D is a pentium (I have one too).

 

[MagicalTrevor]

Core Solo/Core Duo/Core 2 Duo

 

[jaykay]

missed core 2 quadro

 

[OzyOly]

I like the name Xeon, should have used that.