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Sounds like Pentium? 

John Fallon • Monday 14th May 2007 15:19 GMT

Is this a ploy by AMD's marketing division to confuse consumers and make Phenom read/sound like Pentium

re: Sounds like Pentium? 

florian mosleh • Monday 14th May 2007 17:02 GMT

ummm... yeah... because AMD *really* wants customers to confuse their newest line of processors with chips from 1991. wtf.

re: Sounds like Pentium? 

Martyn Ellison • Monday 14th May 2007 17:41 GMT

I dunno if its an attempt to sound like pentium, however the pentium brand is very strong. There are still many people who buy Pentium 4s and Pentiums Ds asumeing that they are the best. Phenom is a nice name though, ive always hated Athlon.

Sound's more like AMD's past brands than Intel's 

Alex • Tuesday 15th May 2007 05:20 GMT

Athlon, Duron, Opteron, Sempron, Phenom.

I think I see what they're up to.

Sound like transformer names to me 

Anonymous Coward • Friday 18th May 2007 17:53 GMT

Sound like transformer names to me

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