Posted on 01/27/2005 5:23:26 PM PST by atomic_dog
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Recent trademark filings from Intel Corp. (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) are raising speculation that the world's largest chip maker may be preparing to create a new global brand. The question is, what does VIIV mean?
"Intel Inside VIIV" and "Intel VIIV" were filed as U.S. trademarks last month by the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker, known for its Pentium and Centrino brands. A square graphic, resembling an inkblot or a starfield, was also filed around the same time.
Intel watchers have a few hypotheses on the meaning of VIIV. One is that the letters are Roman numerals standing for 6 and 4, as in 64-bit technology, a feature that Intel is introducing in its chips this year.
Another is that VIIV will appear in a more stylized form as the logo for the company's new dual-core chips, which are the equivalent of two chips in one. Two letter V's, separated by two lines, could represent the two cores of a Pentium 5 chip.
Of course, the trademark for VIIV, which Intel also filed in Asia and Europe, could be something else altogether, or nothing at all. (Intel's rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) filed trademarks for Forton, Adepton, Tegron, Metaron, and Vanton but doesn't making chips with those brand names.)
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Well, it's not a well-formed Roman numeral LOL.
Fangs with a gap between.
VIIV = Incisors and canines...
20 seconds! Ya beat me by 20 steeeking seconds!
I'd bet on the 64 bit architecture idea.
I think that is a misspelling. It should be VIV to represent a stylized W. It is a homage.
It's Intel's new slogan:
Vast Income, Incredibly Vulgar.
HA!!!
Or, according to Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, sexágintá quattuor.
sexágintá - there's an Intel joke in there somewhere.
Madonna smiling? Or is it David leterman?
VI IV = 6 4. Yeah. That would cater to the publik skool crowd.
Agreed. The Intel 64-bit hardware and the launch of Windows XP 64 in April will be the Next Big Thing. Chipzilla is finally responding to AMD. And further tamping down on the grave of Apple -- let the flames begin :).
Obviously, it's the Mark of the Beast.
VI VI VI
If Apple dies, who would Bill Gates copy from ???
I'm betting on dual core (VI IV) "six-four" (64 bit) arch chips (code named palandrome)
You mean "Intel LXIV" wouldn't cut it?
In case you weren't aware, the last time apple was just about to close the doors ol' Bill stepped up and bought $150 mil of non-voting apple stock.
Not unless they went to an IV league school...
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