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I do like the Intel code names like Tiger Lake, Light Peak and Ivy Ridge. They evoke some kind of combination of Manhattan project megaproject and just-charted

I do like the Intel code names like Tiger Lake, Light Peak and Ivy Ridge. They evoke some kind of combination of Manhattan project megaproject and just-charted territory.

MagnumOpus 4y ago
I don't like them - they were OK when talking about 6-8 chips in 3-4 generations. But after the 30th different lake you get thoroughly confused. Apple did it better, switching from big cats to big cliffs after ten releases...
- Hnrobert42 4y ago
  IMO, they would be even better if they would be even better if they were in alphabetical order. Would make it easier to remember which came first.
- PurpleRamen 4y ago
  The names are all random and without obvious connection to the product, so does it real matter? The confusion comes from the amount, not the naming. So in this case, calling it an overused naming-scheme might be the better description.
- speed_spread 4y ago
  Going from cool felines to places you fall from or wreck your ship into is an interesting analogy for OS X evolution.
papito 4y ago
Those are release names, like Sierra and Mojave for MacOS. Different. There, you can sort of go nuts. The product name is still, well, "processor".
- adhesive_wombat 4y ago
  Even their product range names are "cool" (or at least carefully chosen by marketing to sound technological), like "Xeon" and "Itanium". Probably hard to get street cred for a cutting-edge processing monster named FluffyKitten.
- 0x457 4y ago
  Product family is Core iX, Xeon, Atom, Pentium X etc. Intel® Core™ i9-9900K Processor is a product name. Lucky you generally only care about release names within a single product because thinking which one is Jasper Lake and which one is Alder Lake is not something I want to do. Even those product names are not excellent either: Intel introduced i9 which is essentially what i7 used to be and used to justify higher price - look i7 is the same price, but it's the brand new i9, that is totally wouldn't be called i7 5 years ago, that cost more.

I do like the Intel code names like Tiger Lake, Light Peak and Ivy Ridge. They evoke some kind of combination of Manhattan project megaproject and just-charted territory.

MagnumOpus 4y ago

I don't like them - they were OK when talking about 6-8 chips in 3-4 generations. But after the 30th different lake you get thoroughly confused. Apple did it better, switching from big cats to big cliffs after ten releases...

Hnrobert42 4y ago
IMO, they would be even better if they would be even better if they were in alphabetical order. Would make it easier to remember which came first.
PurpleRamen 4y ago
The names are all random and without obvious connection to the product, so does it real matter? The confusion comes from the amount, not the naming. So in this case, calling it an overused naming-scheme might be the better description.
speed_spread 4y ago
Going from cool felines to places you fall from or wreck your ship into is an interesting analogy for OS X evolution.

papito 4y ago

Those are release names, like Sierra and Mojave for MacOS. Different. There, you can sort of go nuts. The product name is still, well, "processor".

adhesive_wombat 4y ago
Even their product range names are "cool" (or at least carefully chosen by marketing to sound technological), like "Xeon" and "Itanium". Probably hard to get street cred for a cutting-edge processing monster named FluffyKitten.
0x457 4y ago
Product family is Core iX, Xeon, Atom, Pentium X etc. Intel® Core™ i9-9900K Processor is a product name. Lucky you generally only care about release names within a single product because thinking which one is Jasper Lake and which one is Alder Lake is not something I want to do. Even those product names are not excellent either: Intel introduced i9 which is essentially what i7 used to be and used to justify higher price - look i7 is the same price, but it's the brand new i9, that is totally wouldn't be called i7 5 years ago, that cost more.