New AMD K10 will be called Phenom ?

OK, but i dont read french!
also
Phenom is a progressive rock group from Bangalore, India

Phenom" (1993)
TV-Series 1993-1994

Sounds more ridiculous than 'Core 2 Duo'.

Well it has a certain resonace (if the accent is placed right) that trigers a certain feeling inside the listeners, which is a very good thing for a product name, and also sounds very futuristic.

I agree that the Opteron, Sempron, Athlon 64 ... are obsolete and a refresh is very much needed.

Phenominal marketing idea

glad somebody has a reason to like em... but cute/cool names do little for getting work done, or gaming... how about Passdabuck... or Stealthalon... eh, simply Paper Tiger works too.

Thats the capitol of Cambodia

so when will the phenom bomb?

agreed, paper phantom.

id accepted 'crap in a box' provided it performed well,but the general public might be more willing to buy a product called Phemon (if they market it properly) what gets my goat is that every one knows the signiture Intel 'dum dum dum dum' what is AMD's? they need to establish a signiture that everyone will recognise so that people stop asking is it a pentium? instead they will ask has it got one of those new Phenom processors in?

Marketing tip... AMD painstakingly custom made eVery Agena (pronounced ah-GIN-ah) special incorporating (car plug) V8 technology... will now be known as the rash/wrath of Vagina!

Baron has had the vagina rash for some time now...

Aren't Agena and pals the core names and not the brand names? I think they could have picked better sounding stars...

Phenom as a brand...not bad at all. Not a bad idea to drop the Athlon brand.

phemon is a least a name i know, i still dont know what the hell a duron,sempron,or athlon is? Phenomx2, just doesnt do it for me, they keep it simple call it amd kx4 or amd kx2, drop the athlon, it sounds kinda extreme, and not like some boutique pc builder.

I think its a good name choice, and Athlon was starting to get old.

As for Core 2 Duo/Quad, I'm still scratching my head over how they ever decided on those names. Talk about trying to confuse the customer! What is there now: Core (?), Core Duo, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad? Without an enthusiast knowledge, those must be bloody confusing.

Yeah lol about time they drop the "ON" type like Opteron, Atlhon, Duron, Sempron, Turion. Megatron would had been nice.

Well, AMD already gave us its version of the Prescott with the QFX last fall. Probably would have cut down on my heating bills last winter if I had one of those cpu duos.

Phenom? Ok someone thinks highly of themselves.

AMD you narcissistic punks! Wake up! you're not all that.

word

Padded bar. Kinda like your cell.

JUST KIDDIN'!

Yeah lol about time they drop the "ON" type like Opteron, Atlhon, Duron, Sempron, Turion. Megatron would had been nice.

or Gasitron in homage to Henry, Dirk and Hector.Heck, they could have called it MIA (missing in action). Then it would have been in line with their naming scheme and realistic.

Zounds french deu mee, and we all know how good the french are at fighting wars 8O

I've seen a lot of hype about these solid state drives and it all sounds real exciting until you look closely.

Those are blazing read and write speeds and those drives are sure huge...not. I know they are suppose to be used for cache etc. But I would rather use more RAM. I also understand that latency is reduced significantly, but that doesn't make up for the abysmal read/write speeds. Fast SSDs do exist but they cost a huge fortune, like $30,000. I think we'll just have to leave them to the military. The SSDs are going to be used primarily for low power applications like notebooks etc. and of course all the applications for the tiny ones related in the article.

Edit: I just found an SSD, from the TG daily article on Sandisk to OEM to Dell. It looks like I have to eat my words.

Now these read numbers are impressive. I know the writes are considerably slower, and their not quoted in the page, but this actually looks really good. I wonder how much they cost.

SanDisk | OEM | Products | <p>SanDisk SSD Solid State Drives</p> | SanDisk SSD UATA 5000 1.8"
http://www.sandisk.com/Oem/Default.aspx?CatID=1478

AMD should keep the Athlon name until they do a COMPLETE overhaul of the archetecture.

Intel made the same mistake with it's core branding. Core was a good step in the right direction, but Core 2 was the gem. Core should have just been called Pentium 4 or 5.

If Intel had done that they wouldn't need to call their products like this: Core 2 Quad and instead could just say Core Quad, sound a lot better.

AMD should save a name change until they make some major breakthrough. Core was evolutionary. Core 2 was revolutionary. Barcelona is not revolutionary but just an evolution of Athlon.