Nehalem's New Brand Name Becomes Official
Nehalem's New Brand Name Becomes Official
Posted 08/11/2008 at 7:53am
| by Paul Lilly
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Rumors don't always turn out to be true, particularly in the tech wolrd, but that's not the case with last week's chatter regarding Nehalem's name change. Intel has since made it official, formerly branding the new architecture "Intel Core processor." Also true to rumor, the first products to come out of Santa Clara on the new silicon will be dubbed Core i7, which the company says is the first of several new identifiers to come as different products launch over the next year.
"The Core name is and will be our flagship PC processor going forward," said Sean Maloney, Intel's general manager, Sales and Marketing Group. "Expect Intel to focus even more marketing resources around that name and the Core i7 products starting now."
Antsy upgraders can look for the new processors in the fourth quarter of this year, with Extreme Edition variants identifiable by a separate black logo.
Any thoughts on Intel's decision to keep the Core nomenclature?
Image Credit: Intel
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mitpatterson
August 11, 2008 at 7:47pm
At WWFU.Blogspot.com we had this story posted yesterday. look for this and many other First storys at wwfu.blogspot.com
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jwalch.hawk
August 11, 2008 at 9:57pm
You had this official story, huh?
Nice try. The *official* Intel press release is dated August 11 (you know the one the author links to here), the same date as this story was published. You could not have possibly had OFFICIAL documentation behind this story on yesterday (being the 10th).
What you would have had would have still been "we're pretty damn sure" speculation. In other words, the unofficial version. MaxPC had that too (in fact two days before you did it seems) : http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/rumor_intel_sets_official_name_nehalem_core_i7
As a final note, I would seriously think twice about advertising your tech news blog on other tech news sites. It's highly distasteful and a major turn-off. I will steer clear of it for that very reason at this point. Just my two cents there, though. Maybe you've had some success using those methods. I just figured since you were going to treat us all as a potential audience that I'd give you some feedback as such. ;)
mitpatterson
August 15, 2008 at 10:36am
Well our News editor found a story on INTEL's site, the same one linked here accesible via google on the 10th. and the story was dated the 11th, and i tought that was weird, but if it is on intels site a day early that is there fault!
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