Apple's stance on intel's naming of core "i7"

Since apple own the rights to the lower case "i" are they/have they taken any actions towards intel's naming of the core i series?

Or does it have to be iCore in order for apple to take actions?

Just a curious thought.

 

Only if they were intel and not Intel... come on now. You can't seriously think that Core i3, i5, i7, i9 really have anything to do with Apple's "i"This naming. Considering next gen Apples will probably be built with these same CPU's.

 

You mean, IF they have the icore processors. Lets not get our hope up just yet. *Ahem, iPad.

 

Apple definitely does not own the rights to the letter "i".

 

Apple and Intel are probably best friends by now.

 

i think not, sir.

 

this is rather ironic since two other companies that I know of had iPads out quite a while before any mention of an apple iPad

 

Apple does not own the rights to any letters of the alphabet -- in lowercase or uppercase.

No.

They're still powerless.

 

You got tricked lol, "The Onion" posted this info out

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53601

 

rep sent.

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Hum, Why do so many ppl care if they steal the letter i in front of anything then?
Such as the iTablet? Stupid engadget. SO BIASED to apple products - cant stand to see something non-apple to have the letter i.

 

I wonder why they didn't opt to use intel chips in their pads. You know, the one with the i in front of it?

 

^ I believe there are some numbers of people around who believe that Apple dropped the ball there.

 

^ darn right they did.

but hey...fabing your own chips saves money.

it's only costing them, what? $250 for each iPad? probably saved them $30-$50/unit. that's a huge savings.

 

You can't own a letter. Otherwise some millionaire would have copyrighted "a" and charge people royalties.

 

http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MB953LL/A?mco=MTM3NDc2NjA

The iPad doesn't need a Core i-series processor. It's a big iPod Touch, not a full PC.

 

the iPad uses an "in house" processor, but it is really just an arm processor, the same general kind of processor you would find in (newer) iphones and ipod touches.

these processors get insane performance per watt compared to intel stuff. definitely important to use these in place of intel parts in ultra-portable devices.

 

I personally would have hoped that the iPad would have been x86 compatible.

However, what I would have used it for is not what the creators had in mind for it.

 

maybe we can at least put tiger on it, haha.

 

Damn, if only that would be possible. If it were, we'd be putting tiger on our iphones! Woopie!

 

Because the iPad is in the same category as a MacBook.

 

Actually, this reminds me of way back in the pre-Pentium days when Intel called their CPU "486", and then AMD started calling theirs "486" too (or something with "486" in the name). Some court ruled that Intel couldn't really own a number (even as used for processor model numbers), and AMD could continue to call their chip "486". So Intel didn't name their next CPU 586; they named it Pentium instead.

EDIT: More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_(brand)#Origins_of_Pentium_trademark

 

no....well...kinda..
You see intel named it something else first....you guys will love this too....
i486.
(Pentium is 586...penta = 5)
They went all the way up to i686,the grandfather and base layout of the core 2 architecture ,obviously they needed an new number for the next new core:i786,but the "86" part was out of date in an 64bit cpu....so they dropped it,you can guess the rest.
That is were the i7 name comes from,it was not an wacky out there name but an model,and an throw back to the 90's where everyone wanted an "i" CPU because they were thought to be so advanced...it's fitting.
Now this is where they threw an rock in the gear,they named the i5,i3.....yeah...some noob obviously entered the PR office trying to make it "Easier to decide which cpu to get"..And then made some i5s dual cores and some quads?!

 

Lol, reminds me of the quasi-useful "megapixels" measurement.

 

Not to mention Socket 1156 and 1366 both for the desktop i7's. D'oh! Talk about confusing the customer!