Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Whats in a name?

Well today i read that Intel is finally doing away with the name Pentium to usher in a new era of processors? Good news? yes but unfortunately Intel has gone the cheap way and is not hiring anyone with the ability to come up with a new name. Instead, they are going to give the products names like Intel D-4000 etc.

Now, if Intel thinks that by giving names like that its going to create a great marketting scheme for its sales department lol ive got news it wont. The best thing about the Pentium brand name is that it had the name to go with it. People would always say Pentium vs AMD now its going to be Intel vs AMD and not Pentium vs Athlon. The good thing that Intel has going for it is that its also partnering with Apple to get boards for their new computers but the AMD market is also picking up.

I wonder how many people would have blindly jumped on the bandwagon if Sony had named its playstation as Sony P-128X lol.

Sounds dull. get on the board Intel and give ur new product a snazzy name.

Cheers
MEL

1 comment:

Sudheer said...

Intel and Microsoft have been successful in creating great market demand for their products. They both have demonstrated that market can be monopolized evn though the product isn't that good. Today the common man thinks that Windows is the only operating system and Intel the only Microprocessor. The consumer's vision is blocked by these giant companies.
Whether the name is D-4000 or @S^h*i*t it will be the buzz word in the industry.