Intel has completed the design of Penryn, a 45-nanometer chip that will be out toward the end of next year. The company is also in the midst of making its first Penryn samples. “They aren’t out of the fab yet, but they are in the fab,” said Mark Bohr, director of process technology at Intel.
I’d like to get my hands on whoever at intel is in charge of product naming and give them a thorough slapping.
Already at work here, I’ve heard Penryn pronounced 3 different ways.
My guess:
‘Pen’ as in pen
‘ryn’ to rhyme with ‘pin’
It is a code-name, not the actual product name.
It is a code-name, not the actual product name.
I wish ‘Celeron’ had stayed a code name.
oh I dunno… I like ‘penryn’ more than ‘Pentium 4 Extreme Double Plus Good Edition’…
Excerpt from Intel internal memo:
Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
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oh, someone (no pun intended
) got my reference. 
most code names now stick to processors. Woodcrest et all. Core Duo3 perhaps?
Core Duo3 perhaps?
I find it unlikely that Penryn would gain the Core 3 moniker. That’s more likely reserved for the Nehalem (2008).
Penryn is a die shrink plus SSE4; it’s not a new architecture.
The architecture name is Core, not Core Duo.
Hence, the third iteration of the architecture name would be Core 3, with CPUs named Core 3 Solo, Core 3 Duo, and so on.
The Duo is a modifier of the architecture name, and not part of the architecture name. Hence, the name will not be “Core Duo 3”.
It would have been nice if Intel had actually waited until the Core architecture was released before using the Core name. That way, things would make sense now. The whole “Core 2” naming scheme is crap.
The Pentium-M should have remained the Pentium-M, they should never have renamed it Core.
The Core 2 should have been the first one called the Core, since it was the first CPU based on the Core architecture.
Who ever it is at Intel that runs the marketing division should be canned (in all senses of the word).
It’s like a shrinky dink!
Core 2.4 Duo XTreme, that’s my guess.
Looks like a Welsh name,
The word Penrhyn in welsh means “cape” or “peninsula”.
Looks like they left a H out.
Penryn is also a town in Cornwall, so there’s definitely some Celtic connection in the name.
From the article: The chip’s namesake is a town near Sacramento, Calif.
Intel codenames are usually towns, mountains, or rivers near the design center that produced the chip. That is why a lot of the Pentium family have had Oregon and Israel landmarks associated with them since they are mostly designed there.
hmm… interesting Intel’s chip designed in Isreal?
but I dont hear of Isreali names are there that I miss out?
Merom, Yonah, etc
The Pentium-M line of CPUs were designed and developed in Israel. Hence the Hewbrew codenames for them: Yonah, Merom, Dothan, etc.