I'm surprised nobody has posted this one yet. Or at least I haven't seen it anyway in the forum here. It's a good article with new naming for Conroe and Merom and release dates. I found it interesting that they are backward compatible with current boards.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2170

Wow, Core 2, wonder how long it took them to think that one up.

Would've been much cooler if they called the new CPUs Hex instead

screw the naming, I look forward to see their performance... I hope Conroe aren't shitty...

Core 2 is actually really good, makes upgrades to the architecture clearly visible.

This confirms the compatibility of 975x chipset with Conroe! Unless I am missing something?!

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I hate to say this, but here it goes: I agree with Ycon.

The changes are significant and I feel that is the best way to note them. However, I feel that some people may have confusion in what the "2" stands for. Some people may confuse it as meaning 2 cores. Perhaps "II" would be less confusing, but would be a throwback to "Pentium II". Ahh, the good ol' days.

I hate to say this, but here it goes: I agree with Ycon.
sw00td!!!!!!!1111

I thought I heard the "official names" were already stated a while ago.

Oh well, must be those voices inside my head.

I hate to say this, but here it goes: I agree with Ycon.

The changes are significant and I feel that is the best way to note them. However, I feel that some people may have confusion in what the "2" stands for. Some people may confuse it as meaning 2 cores. Perhaps "II" would be less confusing, but would be a throwback to "Pentium II". Ahh, the good ol' days. 8O

I like the name core, and how they denote the number of cores with duo and solo, but naming conroe core 2 I think is a little much.

people may see this and wonder what the original core was, and maybe be unimpressed becase if intel wants to pass core off as very high performance technology (which I'm sure they'll be doing), why didn't they hear about core 1? I'm just thinking this because when the original pentium name launched, it seemed even your average joe knew what it was.

I would have released the original core duo as some sort of dual core pentium name, pentium M D, for (a bad) example, then pulled out the core name when conroe and merom launched.

imo.

What about calling it the Pentium 5? I would have prefered that.

I hate to say this, but here it goes: I agree with Ycon.

The changes are significant and I feel that is the best way to note them. However, I feel that some people may have confusion in what the "2" stands for. Some people may confuse it as meaning 2 cores. Perhaps "II" would be less confusing, but would be a throwback to "Pentium II". Ahh, the good ol' days.

I am not fond of the name Core in and of itself particularly, but the rationale is sane... However, ditching Pentium and going Core helps establish a divergence from the Pentium 4 (and anything that diverges from that is probably a good thing). Pentium had it's hey-day, no doubt, but the image of the brand was Netbusted in my opinion.

Jack

Yeah, I tend to agree. I do like the Pentium name though and it will be sorely missed. Or will it?

How about Intel Pentium Core Duo and Solo? I almost like that better. AMD has the shiznit name though. Athlon is really a powerhouse name and I wish Intel would've followed suit.

Wow imagine if you checked toms hardware before you posted that.

Hey thanks Mad, your such a stud.

The truth is, it's been posted on page 5 on another thread. It wasn't posted by itself.

moving from pentium to core _is_ probably a smart move to show something new, I agree with that. but I think they've gone too far with it already. the core name has been out for what, 5 months, and they're at core 2 already? I guess that's what they want. maybe they'll be taking core into very high numbers before they ditch it altogether when they release their next architecture, seeing as they're saying it'll be every 2 years now. just a thought.

in a way I would have liked them to stick with the pentium name. a pentium 5 would have swayed a lot of people, seeing as everyone knows the pentium name. but pent and 5 really is redundant, so it's probably good they've ditched it.

athlon is probably the best name out of the bunch now, imo. not that it really matters though. but overall I'd say intel has the better naming scheme : pentium, centrino, itanium. and all their code names: northwood, nehalim, cedar mill, etc. I think they're pretty cool. AMD has the athlon name, and opteron which I really like, but their other names are (pretty much) t