I think I preferred Hammer...

tigerwoods99tigerwoods99
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
"As mentioned yesterday, AMD unveiled the offical name for their 8th generation, 64-bit CPU: AMD Opteron.

The naming will basically be similar to their 7th generation products: the high-end products will be called Opteron, while the mainstream will be called Athlon. Actually, AMD hasn't nailed down the mainstream name just yet, but it's supposedly going to contain Athlon in some way/shape/form.

In addition, AMD has also issued another press release detailing Microsoft's support for this next generation platform.

Tomorrow, AMD is going to demo this system working on a 64-bit development version of WindowsXP, and show both 32-bit and 64-bit applications running simultaneously."



Clawhammer & Sledgehammer were better names.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 15
    macratmacrat Posts: 35member
    I agree. Opteron sounds like something I should clean my contacts with. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
  • Reply 2 of 15
    airslufairsluf Posts: 1,861member
  • Reply 3 of 15
    fotnsfotns Posts: 301member
    I liked hammer also, but AMD wouldn't have been allowed to copyright the name.
  • Reply 4 of 15
    exercise in frivolityexercise in frivolity Posts: 233member
    [quote]Originally posted by FotNS:

    <strong>I liked hammer also, but AMD wouldn't have been allowed to copyright the name.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    The more specific "ClawHammer" could be though.
  • Reply 5 of 15
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    What about the 'Hammeron" and "ClawHammeron".
  • Reply 6 of 15
    stepsonstepson Posts: 95member
    Wasn't Opteron a transformer? Didn't he kill optimus prime or something?
  • Reply 7 of 15
    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,425member
    Oh my goodness! Opteron???? I'm embarrassed just saying it. Lord will someone please slap AMD. Athlon wasn't too bad but Opteron...gag. Whatever company is making money marketing foolish names to AMD should be laughing all the way to the bank.
  • Reply 8 of 15
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    [quote]Originally posted by hmurchison:

    <strong>Oh my goodness! Opteron???? I'm embarrassed just saying it. Lord will someone please slap AMD. Athlon wasn't too bad but Opteron...gag. Whatever company is making money marketing foolish names to AMD should be laughing all the way to the bank.</strong><hr></blockquote>

    Opteron is a bad name, i will prefer Anteraks, Anteraks, huge processor unit.
  • Reply 9 of 15
    lemon bon bonlemon bon bon Posts: 2,383member
    ...embarrassing name or not...the 'Octagon' will be beating the bejeezus out of equally embarrassing and out of date cpus aka G4 and G3 soon. Unless the 7500 has summat to say about it...?



    I hope the egg is coming...



    Lemon Bon Bon



  • Reply 10 of 15
    eskimoeskimo Posts: 474member
    Opteron is the name for the products that will compete against the Xeon. Clawhammer systems will continue to use variations of the Athlon name to compete against the Pentium series.
  • Reply 11 of 15
    macaddictmacaddict Posts: 1,055member
    Personally I'd like to see an Athlon 64.
  • Reply 12 of 15
    badtzbadtz Posts: 949member
    any chance apple & amd would get together to do a 32-bit/64-bit mac version of the hammer? :_X
  • Reply 13 of 15
    crusadercrusader Posts: 1,129member
    How about we start naming processors after elements? The "Opteron" could be the Neon, and the G5 could be called the "Einsteinium".

    We could nickname the P4's Pb.



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  • Reply 14 of 15
    xmogerxmoger Posts: 242member
    [quote]How about we start naming processors after elements? The "Opteron" could be the Neon, and the G5 could be called the "Einsteinium".

    We could nickname the P4's Pb.<hr></blockquote>

    I think element 113, or unobtainium, would be a better name for the G5.



    HeHe, my jokes are funny.
  • Reply 15 of 15
    the power of xthe power of x Posts: 105member
    I don't know about you guys but I want one of those Octium IV superchips made by E-Com-Con (Lone Gunmen-pilot.) Imagine the rendering and encoding you could do with one of those and the right hardware associating with it.
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