Linky
A LONG TIME AGO, we held a contest to develop a new naming scheme for Intel. Now, the judges deliberated for almost two months, and came up with a winner, well three winners for two different categories at the very least.
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Enough ranting though, time to move on to the fun stuff. The contest had two categories, serious and non-serious. Serious has one winner, and non-serious has two, they were both so good I couldn't just pick one. We only put in names where supplied, no emails.
For the serious side, there were a bunch of things all along two lines. The first was 'add enough info so you can actually figure it out', and the second was the aforementioned simplificate. As I stated before, I like the simple route, so without much more commentary, here is the winner, naddyc123's entry, are you listening Intel?
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It's good to see Intel making life so much easier for the consumer. I was worried that I wasn't going to know what was what next time I made a purchase.
Maybe they could try this alternative:
Pentium D 282A
The D indicates that the chip is for desktop computers
The next two digits would indicate the core clock, in this case 2.8GHz
The third digit would show how many cores are on the die
The letter would denote the core revision and thus feature set e.g. 'A' could be a 90nm chip that features EMT64 and SSE1,2 and 3 and a 800MHz FSB perhaps 'B' could have the same features as 'A' but instead have a 1066FSB or something like that.
Surely that would be easier to follow no?
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All new Intel chips will be placed in a standardized test laptop rig having the same thermal characteristics. The laptop will then be loaded up running benchmarks and turned upside down. A 1/2 inch cut of steak will be applied to the underside of the laptop to act as a cooling medium. The time, in seconds, required to cook the steak to a safe well-done state will be taken down and an S will be added (to indicate that steak and not pork or chicken was used in the test), making the new numbering scheme S000 with the faster chips having higher numbers most of the time.
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AMD's CPU naming scheme was originally based off of then-current Pentium performance comparisons. Intel is returning the favor in Q106 by basing its newest naming convention for CPUs off of relative AMD64 performance.
The scheme is as follows: xx00/y
Where xx is the comparitive AMD64 model and y is the number of times faster said model is than the Intel CPU you are purchasing.
An example of a current model CPU using this convention would be "3000/2" which allows users to easily see their 3.0GHz Pentium 4 531 is expected to provide half the performance of an AMD64 3000+.
There are also rumors of a suffix to the model, such as "3000/2-50" which allows customers to easily identify the fact that the AMD64 3000+ is indeed $50 cheaper than the compared Intel CPU.
