The last canonical example of Intel refreshing their naming convention was with their Xeon line up which is now utterly incomprehensible, at a glance you used t

The last canonical example of Intel refreshing their naming convention was with their Xeon line up which is now utterly incomprehensible, at a glance you used to be able to understand what was going on; EX-YZZZ vA E3 - Rebranded Desktop Class parts with ECC support E5 - High-Desktop & Regular Multi-Processor Server parts E7 - High-End Multi-Processor Server Y - Denotes Socket Support. ZZZ - Denotes a model number, indicating from low to high increases in features, cores and/or clock speed. vA - Denotes Generation. Xeon E5-2980v2 - is a high-core count server processor for use in dual socket servers, belonging to the Ivy Bridge Generation of parts. The new naming "convention" is as follows - from a glance can you identify any information from this; Xeon Bronze 3204 Xeon Silver 4214R Xeon Gold 6212U Xeon Gold 6342 Xeon Platinum 8280 Xeon Platinum 8380 Xeon W-2295 Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum - are so unclear as to be meaningless - there are dual socket Silver processors more capable than some Gold processors. W prefixed parts are Workstation parts. The First Digit bears no connection to anything (except in the platinum series where it denotes 8 socket capability), perhaps PCI-E Lanes? The Second digit apparently denotes generation. The Suffix denotes that it's only capable of running in a single processor configuration - except when it doesn't. Ohh, and the 'E3-**** v*' convention still stands for desktop rebranded parts. It's a complete mess.