According to rumors on a French site, Intel is on course to drop the name ‘Pentium’ from its line of processors after nearly 10 years. This can be attributed to the big fight that the processor industry is going to witness in the year 2006. Intel is slated to lauch its “Yonah” and THE 64-bit “Merom” chips in the next year in retaliation to AMD and to further strenghten their postition in the portable market.
With the launch of Yonah in early January next year, Intel is expected to drop the name Pentium and adopt another set of names for its line of processors. They are Core Solo for the single-core processors and Core Duo for the dual-core processors. If true, it will be a big moment in the history of the chip-maker as the Pentium line was one of the most successful processor line till date and is so closely related to Intel’s identity that it will be very difficult for Intel to shed it easily.
