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How the Coolest Technologies got their Names
Jayesh Limaye, Nov 06, 2009 0900 hrs ISTInteresting info about how famous technologies and gadgets were named
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Pentium
When
Intel had developed the successor to the i486 and was getting ready for
its launch, they had the name i586 in mind for the new processor. Intel
wanted to trademark this name because of competitors using similar
names with the numbers (such as Am486 from AMD), but US courts would
not allow numbers as trademarks. Intel asked Lexicon Branding to create
a brand that could be trademarked for their new processors. The name
Pentium was suggested as it contained "Pente" meaning five in Greek and
"ium" which is the Latin ending for neutral nouns.
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