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John Brownlee

AT 2:08 AM
Monday August 11, 2008

Computers • Hardware

architecture • core i7 • cpu • intel • nehalem

Intel: Nehalem is now Core i7

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Intel's upcoming Nehalem architecture is officially getting a new name: Core i7. Insiders tell BBG that Nehalem fell out of favor after testing groups thought it "too Jewish."* Intel's fervently Hassidic corporate culture will be downplayed by the new branding, although not be eliminated entirely: our sources tell us that the i stands for "Isaiah" while the 7 indicates the number of Ushpizzin who visit the sukkah during the holiday of Sukkot.

Intel changes Nehalem to Core i7 [Intel]

* - Wrong. They were, of course, thinking of the Nephilim, not the Nehalem.

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13 Comments

zuzu

#1 – 2:35 AM August 11, 2008

while the number 7 indicates the number of Ushpizzin who visit the sukkah during the holiday of Sukkot.
Is that the one where they go in the tent?

nprnncbl

#2 – 5:57 AM August 11, 2008

Isaiah, though, is already taken, by VIA, along with Ezra, Samuel, Esther, Joshua, Eden, and Nehemiah. What else could "i" possibly stand for?

And Zuzu, if by tent you meant sukkah , then yes. If you meant something more Kafkaesque, then no.

wangleberry

#3 – 8:02 AM August 11, 2008

thats a really crap name.
its the same name as 1 of the 5 networks in my country (au), (the crappest and least watchable one)

themindfantastic

#4 – 8:31 AM August 11, 2008

I always was the one to prefer the codewords for a product instead what they eventually get called I mean Microsoft Windows LONGHORN! Thats a NAME! Or Intel's Clackamas Chip.

People refereed to its operating systems after big cats which is AWESOME, Im using LEOPARD! Thats gotta rev up the testosterone!

Bruce Arthurs

#5 – 8:43 AM August 11, 2008

From what I read in the Wikipedia link, they could have called it Tillamook instead.

But that would have been too cheesy.

royaltrux

#6 – 10:25 AM August 11, 2008

It does have roots in the Pentium M, which was developed in Israel, as far as I know.

zuzu

#7 – 10:33 AM August 11, 2008

According to Wikipedia,

As the M line was originally designed in Israel, the first Pentium M was identified by the codename Banias, named after an ancient site in the Golan Heights.
...which is a little fucked since Israel forcibly annexed the Golan Heights from Syria.

Eicos

#8 – 11:48 AM August 11, 2008

Yeah, real fucked. Poor Syria. There they were in 1967, just minding their own business, and then mean ol' Israel came out of nowhere and took away all their toys. Oh wait...

w000t

#9 – 1:58 PM August 11, 2008

When will people realize that all of the Abrahamic chipmakers (yes, even AMD, PBUH) worship the same electrons?

zuzu

#10 – 2:38 PM August 11, 2008

There they were in 1967, just minding their own business, and then mean ol' Israel came out of nowhere and took away all their toys. Oh wait...
Because if the military invasion and occupation of Iraq by the USA has demonstrated anything, it's that pre-emptive strikes are justified. Oh wait...

kevin143

#11 – 2:58 AM August 12, 2008

Hey, I have a great idea, let's solve the Israel/Palestine dispute by arguing on the internet.

lunarworks

#12 – 8:30 AM August 12, 2008

I thought it was a Hebrew name as well, it sounds like one for sure, but it's actually the name of a tribe of Native Americans and a river in Oregon.

trr

#13 – 12:04 PM August 12, 2008

A river in Oregon it is indeed, which is also where Intel's logic development fab, D1D, is. They probably wanted to name it Squaw Creek, but they changed the name of that stream already, to avoid certain connotations.

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