Going by year doesn't help when they have more than one microarchitecture in their product line at a time. If their naming conventions were a bit cleaner and th

Going by year doesn't help when they have more than one microarchitecture in their product line at a time. If their naming conventions were a bit cleaner and they didn't rebadge older chips to prevent the appearance of having holes in their product lineup, then we could almost go by model numbers, but that's definitely not viable. As difficult as they may be to remember, the microarchitecture codenames are the most concise way to unambiguously specify the affected chips.