Pentium name gets dusted off
Intel likes the old name
Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 12:40
CHIPZILLA has dusted off the name Pentium as its mainstream performance brand for mobile computers.
PC Magazine says that Pentiums will appear inside machines in the higher-performance "ultrathin notebook" market segment, which is just above netbooks. Those systems require something with a little more bit-crunching oomph than an Atom processor but less power than a normal CPU chip.
Pentium has been an Intel brand since 1993 and has had good innings in terms of marketing. Apparently the label will be stuck on the 1.3-GHz ULV chip that Intel will call the Pentium SU2700. This beastie runs at a thermal design power of 10 watts. µ
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I can't cope with trying to read those comments - I have already forgotten what the article was about. I'm going for a nice cold beer, calm me down a bit.
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dusted off? the recently released pentium e5400 that i bought last month wasn't dusty at all.
Pentium SU2700? Catchy.
I think they should have named it the Pentium LX4050DXG-VTSX-R1 instead. That way I'd remember it the next time I shop for a PC.
I think they shoudl have named it the Pentium SUX2700. Now, that would have been really memorble.
:D
Still feels like Pentium 4 is still haunting us.
...after the "news" broke, but on articles published much earlier in the year: Search for the Acer "Timeline" series of notebooks and you'll find that 2009's models include a... "Pentium Pro"!?
Not sure how this is going to work out for them when reviews are panning the performance (albeit by comparing GHz; shorely a 1.6GHz Atom is much more numbery than a 1.3GHz... whatever these are) and searches by clueless users will find benchmarks for ten year old chips.