Pentium brand
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Intel introduced the brand name "Pentium" for its successor to the i486. Since numbers could not be trademarked, they felt they needed to have a name instead of using i586.
Since that time, several generations of products have used the name.
Articles about products using the Pentium brand:
- Pentium
- Pentium OverDrive
- Pentium Pro
- Pentium II
- Pentium III
- Pentium 4
- Pentium M
- Pentium D
- Pentium Extreme Edition
- Pentium E
Similar processors have been given other brands, highlighting the fact that a brand is not a technology:
[edit] End of an era
The Intel Core processor, released in early 2006 (also marked by Intel's new logo), is the first non-budget/value desktop or notebook Intel processor not using the Pentium brand; it replaces the Pentium M processors. The Intel Core 2 processors have largely replaced the remaining processors using the Pentium brand. However, a future line of dual-core budget processors based on the Core microarchitecture will carry the Pentium nomenclature.
