The Intel Development Forum might want to look a little closer to home for potential controversy with regards to Middle Eastern politics, as they share their acronym, 'IDF' with the Israeli army - the Israel Defence Force!
simply that the name comes from the israeli intel team. After the failure of the indian team to develop the new version of the pentium 4 microarchitecture, intel had to fall back to the team in israel, because they come up with a fast and low power pentium pro derivate, called core. (the ppro, pII, pIII, core, core2 systems share the same microarchitecture) The engineers just choose a name that they felt was right.
Should I protest the name Bluetooth because he probably chopped off a few enemies' heads in battle? I don't think it really matters if the name is generic enough, pretty much any name has some kind of political ramifications. As long as it isn't too blatant, like the Intel Hitler Supremacy Chip or something, nobody will really care, beyond stoking the fire (not that I'm blaming El Reg or anything)
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Intel gives up on super-charged 'Gesher'
Robert Grant
How can they be trying to avoid Israeli references... #
Posted Tuesday 17th April 2007 12:42 GMT
...when their developer forum is called the IDF?
Joel
...and they thought 'Gesher' was provocative #
Posted Tuesday 17th April 2007 13:06 GMT
The Intel Development Forum might want to look a little closer to home for potential controversy with regards to Middle Eastern politics, as they share their acronym, 'IDF' with the Israeli army - the Israel Defence Force!
Anonymous Coward
The reason is... #
Posted Tuesday 17th April 2007 13:24 GMT
simply that the name comes from the israeli intel team. After the failure of the indian team to develop the new version of the pentium 4 microarchitecture, intel had to fall back to the team in israel, because they come up with a fast and low power pentium pro derivate, called core. (the ppro, pII, pIII, core, core2 systems share the same microarchitecture) The engineers just choose a name that they felt was right.
Ian Ferguson
Does it really matter? #
Posted Tuesday 17th April 2007 14:23 GMT
Should I protest the name Bluetooth because he probably chopped off a few enemies' heads in battle? I don't think it really matters if the name is generic enough, pretty much any name has some kind of political ramifications. As long as it isn't too blatant, like the Intel Hitler Supremacy Chip or something, nobody will really care, beyond stoking the fire (not that I'm blaming El Reg or anything)