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What's the usual step when companies brand their product generations with numbers and they get too big? I can't imagine calling something an "Intel 10400" in tw
by PascLeRasc 9y ago
What's the usual step when companies brand their product generations with numbers and they get too big? I can't imagine calling something an "Intel 10400" in two years.
- dagw 9y ago286->386->486->Pentium Pentium->Pentium II->Pentium III -> Pentium IV -> Core If history is any guide they'll come up with a completely new naming and numbering scheme soon enough.
- smitherfield 9y agoIf I had to guess the new marketing name will be introduced at 10 or 7 nm, and be metallic or light-themed as a reference to the major process changes at that node (silicon->exotic semiconductors and/or conventional->extreme ultraviolet lithography).
- monocasa 9y agoI thought Pentium was just because the Trademark office was scoffing at registering just a string of numbers. So instead of 586, they called it Pentium. Core was a total change in design representing a very different lineage than the current at the time Pentiums, so it makes sense that they'd change the name. I'm not sure that I see a similar external pressure in this case.
- jandrese 9y agoMore to the point, they were running away from the horrible Pentium 4 chips and wanted people to know that their machines wouldn't run like a dog anymore. It's kind of hard for Intel to switch up the numbering on a product that is changed so little between revisions. Plus, having the 10nm chips use the 10 prefix seems like a good coincidence.
- tedunangst 9y agoThe ex-celeron.
- icegreentea2 9y agoNvidia and AMD both reset their numbering schemes when that happened: After the GeForce 9 series (ie, the 9800 GT), Nvidia moved to the 100 series (GeForce G 150), which continues up to this day (ie GeForce GTX 1080). AMD did something similar after the HD 8000 series, and switched to the RX 200 series.
- dEnigma 9y agoInteresting that the jump from 900 to 1000 doesn't seem to be that much of a problem, but companies avoid the jump from 9000 to 10000. At least I can think of no example right now. Nvidia stopped after the 9000 series, Intel never crossed the 10000 mark in their "Core 2" CPUs ("highest I can find is Core 2 Duo T9900"), and so on.
- tedunangst 9y agoIt's easy to say ten eighty or ninety eight hundred, but 10800 lacks a convenient phonetic form.
- dEnigma 9y ago"Ten, eight hundred"? But I see what you mean. Especially when you reach the teens, e.g. "17700", it would sound pretty bad.
- vvillena 9y agoYou can take a look at graphics cards companies. ATI/AMD went from Radeon to Radeon HD to Radeon R5/R7/R9/RX. Nvidia went from Geforce to Geforce GT. In all cases, the name change happened after the 900/9000 series of cards, and the numbers were more or less reset.
- dEnigma 9y agoNvidia didn't reset after the recent 900 series of GPUs though.