Intel Corp. will continue withdrawal of the Pentium brand from the market later this year when it unveils its new generation desktop and mobile processors under the Core 2 brand-name.
For the first time in years Intel will have the same trademarks for its desktop and mobile processors, something, which should emphasize good performance per watt ratio for the new chips known under Conroe, Merom and Woodcrest code-names and also their low power consumption. The new desktop Core 2 Duo chips will consume only up to 65W, whereas modern high-performance Pentium D chips have thermals of up to 130W.
Intel Core is the name for the company’s dual-core mobile processor code-named Yonah that sports several performance enhancements over the previous-generation Pentium M chips, but does not provide certain modern features, such as 64-bit capability. Intel Core 2 processors, however, will support 64-bit technology and also employ many performance-boosting features compared to the Core or the Pentium D chips.

Intel Core 2 Duo processors for desktops – Conroe – will be offered within E4000- and E6000-series, while Intel Core 2 Duo processors for mobile computers – Merom – will exist in T5000- and T7000-series. The code-named Woodcrest processors are unlikely to use the Core 2 brand-name, but will be branded as Xeon central processing units.
Intel’s processors code-named Conroe, Merom and Woodcrest will utilize a new micro-architecture with shorter pipeline and high performance per clock ratio. The new processors will feature 14-stages pipeline, down from 31 or more stages found in current Intel Pentium (Prescott) designs, 4-issue out-of-order execution engine as well as improved performance of the floating-point unit (FPU). Also, the new chips and platforms on their base will also feature capabilities like virtualization, LaGrande technology, x86-64 in addition to EDB, EIST and AMT2.
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What is going on with Intel and their naming department. Pentium is a good name, Itanium is a great name, Core sucks bad, vPro sucks bad, and now Core 2 with Core only having been out for a few months? Is this the same group that brought us the Celeron, a name that brings up vivid images of a non-nutritive fibrous vegetable?
The scary thing is not only does someone have to come up with these bad names, but there were people sitting around the table saying "Yes, that's a great name!", "Good job, guys", "This will knock them off their feet". How do they collect so many idiots, pay them, and teach them all how to sit in a chair.
Not that AMD is much better, Athlon sounds like a foot fungus or a slow moving, peripatetic, arboreal animal. But, it is still better than Core. Core is so dreadfully boring and lifeless, even fungal growth seems appealing by contrast.
Think of all the pleasure you'll have telling your friends you have a Core 2 Duo 980, or whatever the Hell numbers they give them.
Why do they waste all their good names on code names? Katmai would be a cool name, even Tualatin is not too bad. What would you rather tell your friends, you bought a Katmai processor, or a Core 2 Duo 980 E ? Heck, you say that to a girl and you might get slapped, even though she'll not be entirely sure why she slapped you.
Core 2 Duo. Just beautiful.
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Posted by: TA152H

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Date: 05/08/06 12:48:07 PM]
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for 1 simple reason.
the name they picked are short, easy to pronounce in many languages and easy to remember.
A: hey huney, today I bought a kat~mai...
B: what? you bought a Cat~mail? they make mails for cats now?
A: hey huney, today I bought a Core 2 duo
B: wow! nice are they really faster than the AMD?
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Pentium and Itanium are easy to remember? They are not simple words. Celeron isn't really either.
There's more to naming than just keeping it simple. Itanium sounds powerful, Pentium to an extent too, while at the same time being mysterious. Celeron sounds like a virtually inedible vegetable that plagues stuffing at Thanksgiving. Athlon sounds a bit homosexual and fungal. Duron is ridiculously bad, and on the same level of dullness as Core. Probably worse. Sempron is a decent name, for some reason I see Marines (maybe I need help with this). I like Opteron a lot, it sounds fast, clean, and ultra-modern. "Opt" gives the impression of light, which is positive imagery. Opteron and Itanium have very good imagery with their names. Duron I think it the worst, I guess AMD did too since they dropped it. Core now occupies that spot.
Core????? It's so simple it's disgusting. I've got a Core as the core of my computer.
A guy from AMD had a great line that I liked when he mentioned the name core. He said it was a ridiculous name and would be like a car maker naming their car "Piston". I agree. It's ridiculous
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Posted by: TA152H

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Date: 05/08/06 06:24:35 PM]
Who cares?
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I recently got a new Sony laptop with a Core Duo processor, and since it runs at the same 1.8 GHz clock speed as my other Dell with a Centrino, I decided to do some performance testing. From the results, it looks like the way programs are written will make a huge difference between whether or not we see a performance gain out of the new Duo line:
http://geekswithblogs.net/lorint/archive/2006/05/08/77566.asp x
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core 2 duo it is long name and it is hard to remember , the way to say is unsure co re two du o , or cor e two duo and intel make mistake about this name. And Chinese they cant say R word in proper way.core 2 duo are horrible name
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Date: 05/09/06 06:46:23 PM]
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Does Intel Core 2 Duo supports 64 bit?
I think it doesn't, if it would had been then compant (Intel) must have had advertised it.
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