Denys writes:

> I have assembled the following list of commercial names with their
>  associated codenames.  As you can see, some commercial names have multiple
>  codenames and Intel really got a lot of mileage out of the name Pentium.
>   The original codenames were very simple, they got onto the PNW river theme
>  with the Tillamook, the Pentium with MMX built on a .25 micron size.  It
>  was destined for notebooks as a low power equivalent to a corresponding
>  desktop CPU.  My Compaq Armada 7750 (circa 1997) has one.
>
>  Pentium (.80 micron fabrication 60/66MHz) codename P5
>  Pentium with .50 micro or smaller codename P54
>  Pentium w/ MMX codename P55
>  Pentium w/MMX .25 micron for notebooks codename Tillamook
>  Pentium II codename Klamath
>  Pentium III Original codename Katmai
>  Pentium III  0.18 Micron with 256KB of on-die L2 cache codename Coppermine
>  Pentium III socket 370 (current) codename Tualatin
>  Pentium IV codename Timna (never made it out)
>  Pentium IV codename Willamette
>  Pentium IV multiprocessor codename Foster
>
>  Pentium Pro codename P6
>  Pentium II Xeon codename Deschutes
>  Pentium III Xeon codename Tanner
>  Pentium III Xeon .18 Micron codename Cascades
>
>  Celeron Original (no L2 cache) codename Covington.
>  Celeron A (with 128KB of L2 cache) codename Mendocino
>  Celeron (with 256KB of L2 cache) codename Dixon
>
>  Itanium codename Merced
>  Itanium II codename McKinley

Perhaps of greater interest is the fact that Intel will most likely announce
its newest chip this coming Monday, a 1.7 Ghz Pentium 4 device. While the
target price for the chip was originally publicized to be $700, rumors are
that they will announce the chip at either $500 -- a truly substantial drop
-- or even perhaps, at $350 per processor.

Reasonably astounding pricing and speeds.

Wirt Atmar

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