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be careful with trademark from ARM, they already have R5 and R7 cpus, I'm not sure about R8
by bedros 9y ago
be careful with trademark from ARM, they already have R5 and R7 cpus, I'm not sure about R8
- Cyph0n 9y agoThere is the Audi R8 sports car, but I guess this is unrelated enough?
- agumonkey 9y agoClearly the day Audi is threatened by a processor they need to quit building cars.
- Cyph0n 9y agoI wouldn't be surprised if there were auto manufacturers that build processors for vehicle control units completely in-house.
- jacquesm 9y agoMost are made by specialist companies, think Bosch, Steyr (sp?) and Delphi.
- joshu 9y agoIt's ok. As long as this doesn't have AWD it will branch well.
- godmodus 9y agoCan use same name for a different product catigory. Same catogory -> somebody gonna geta hurt
- tilt_error 9y agoUnless it is relaterade to apple(s).
- ajb 9y agoIntel discovered to their cost that you can't trademark a number (hence 80486->pentium). Don't know if one letter is enough :-)
- Symmetry 9y agoNobody can trademark the name "Windows" as applied to actual windows. And I'm free to create a trademarked chain of "Windows" restaurants. But I can't call my operating system "Windows" and I'm on thin ice calling any other sort of computer program "Windows."
- milankragujevic 9y agoAllwinner has an R8 IoT SoC based on the A13.
- kersny 9y agoThe C.H.I.P. guys (and maybe Allwinner themselves) use R8 as a CPU name: https://getchip.com/ https://getchip.com/ http://linux-sunxi.org/Allwinner_SoC_Family#.22R.22-Series http://linux-sunxi.org/Allwinner_SoC_Family#.22R.22-Series
- Sanddancer 9y agoThey do have an R8 core, but they don't have a trademark on that part of the name[1], they just have one for Cortex. However, the name should probably be changed for removing confusion anyways, because Renesas has an R8C series of CISC microcontrollers [2]. The namespace around single letter and then a number processor model is real crowded. [1] https://www.arm.com/about/trademarks/arm-trademark-list/ https://www.arm.com/about/trademarks/arm-trademark-list/ [2] https://www.renesas.com/en-us/products/microcontrollers-microprocessors/r8c.html https://www.renesas.com/en-us/products/microcontrollers-micr...