Why Intel CPUs Are Named After Lakes #Shorts

Team Blue is a big fan of codenames like Kaby Lake, Alder Lake, and Rocket Lake. How come? #Shorts

[davidg]

Minor correction: Most of the "lake" names have been based on actual places.
Only a few, like Skylake, have been completely fictitious lake names.

[Volker_A]

Alder Lake in Washington was my favorite place to swim growing up, so it was pretty cool to see.

[kevinjbonn]

I've looked up all these lakes though. Some of them are tiny, but not fictitious. I'm waiting for Crater Lake.

[dragonic]

In 2090: Sir, we've run out of lakes...

[GRBtutorials]

Headcanon: Coffee Lake is actually called that because the processor gets so hot that you can make coffee with it.

[WindowsBetaCamp]

because they want to keep their market share afloat

[zengrath]

I miss when Android versions was named after sweets.

[RycoonGalloy]

I thought it was because at first, when it was the same architecture, it would keep the second part of the name (ivy bridge and sandy bridge both were the same architecture, but different process nodes, same with Haswell and Broadwell) but when they got stuck on 14 nanometer, they had to keep the -lake name because the process was stuck on 14nm too. Theory checked out until cannon lake which was 10nm but still "lake"

[kenzieduckmoo]

because they were stuck on the Skylake process for so long, they forgot that they used to name their stuff differently each process. (Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, etc)

[MyxT]

What about the pre-lake names tho like haswell or sandy Bridge (the latter one sounding like it could crash at any moment)

[mrmoosetachio]

and here I was guessing because their goal is to make a cpu so hot you'd need a whole lake to cool it. and they are getting close!

[NetRolllerD]

Originally, there were only going to be 2 "Lakes": Skylake and Cannonlake (yes, as one word), the 2 planned iterations of the Lake Microarchitecture. Because Cannonlake, later Cannon Lake, kept slipping, Intel added more and more "Lakes" which were just minor revisions of Skylake - to the point that it would've been strange to see a non-Lake CPU architecture, so they kept the "Lake" naming even for Ice Lake, which was a completely new design, no longer based on the Lake Microarchitecture.

[TeaDrivenDev]

Around the turn of the century, their desktop CPU code names were rivers in the PNW. Pentium II were Deschutes and Klamath, Pentium III were Coppermine and Tualatin, and the first Pentium IV was Willamette. I only learned about this connection much later, so my first association with those names will always be the CPUs.

[ydid]

android had sweets and other delicacies

oreo, kitkat, ice cream sandwich, jellybean, lollipop, marshmallow and then corporate force sanitized the lineup to the point of bland and nothing special

[averyoldYoutubeuser]

And also the Springdale, Wolfdale, Clarksdale

[haribalachander]

Amd CPUs were actually named after lakes. Such as Kabini, Kaveri and Beema in India as well as other lakes in the US.

[SadlyBest]

I really hate this vertical video new trend, but this is amazing content!

[JordanV]

Coffee Lake is indeed a local Oregon lake.

[KelpCentralOfficialLogical]

Thanks for these tips i didnt even know of love them

[nimamaster]

There's whiskey lake?
Would've been fitting for boris to use in vodka cooled pc