Talk:IA32 Architecture Family
I'm seriously impressed, when I saw all the edits in the recent changes spot I assumed "spambot" or "n00b", but great information! --Troy Martin 15:38, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
- That's what you get when two different people are editing the same article - it won't merge multiple edits. Good work, still :) - Combuster 16:52, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
- It's called "Extreme Wiki Editing" :P JackScott 23:55, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
I would like to rename this article to "x86 Architecture Family" or something like that to avoid confusion as it also contains information about non-Intel CPUs. However, I don't know how this will affect the wiki start page template thingy.--Love4boobies 05:49, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
Marketing...
Currently these tables list marketing names, but marketing names are very confusing because the same CPU with the same features (but possibly, different clock speeds and different cache sizes) are typically marketed under several different names (e.g. Celeron vs. Pentium 4 vs. Xeon); and sometimes entirely different CPUs use the same name (Xeon vs. Xeon vs. Xeon).
Also, there are at least 2 cases where a CPU changes companies. The first example is National Semiconductor's Geode, which was taken over by AMD. In this case "NS Geode GX" was followed by "AMD Geode GX1", which was followed by "AMD Geode GX2". Also note that the "AMD Geode LX" is actually an Athlon and has nothing to do with the "NS Geode GX" (except for the northbridge, etc). The second example is the "Centaur" series, which went from WinChip/IDT to VIA.
I'm thinking it might reduce the confusion if these tables listed microarchitectures (e.g. Netburst, and not Celeron/Pentium 4/Xeon), possibly including code names (e.g. "Netburst Willamette", then "Netburst Northwood", then "Netburst Prescott").
Just a thought....
-Brendan