Etymology of AMD Processor Names

[scoser]

I'm doing a paper for English on a technical item from my field of study, and I chose to go specific and do the AMD AthlonXP 2500+ with the Barton core. For this paper, I have to do an etymology (history of a word) of the names involved in that.

I was wondering if anyone knows the reasons behind why AMD chose the names:

Athlon
the "XP" suffix and what it stands for
Barton

I should be able to help explain the 2500+ and the naming conventions behind that on my own, but coming up with the reasons why AMD named the above chips (and what they were named after) has been tough.

Thanks in advance!

 

[joe2004]

XP=extreme performance.

 

[Shimmishim]

I think part of it was also a marketing scheme cuz at the time Windows XP was the new big thing and wanted to work the whole XP thing into their processor name....

microsoft = lots of money with XP

amd = trying to make more money by marketing chips as XP so that it'd be recognized with windows XP


at least that's what i remember but i could be totally pulling this out of my butt as well... 😕

 

[hytek369]

Originally posted by: Shimmishim
I think part of it was also a marketing scheme cuz at the time Windows XP was the new big thing and wanted to work the whole XP thing into their processor name....

microsoft = lots of money with XP

amd = trying to make more money by marketing chips as XP so that it'd be recognized with windows XP


at least that's what i remember but i could be totally pulling this out of my butt as well... 😕

exactly😀

 

[DivideBYZero]

'Barton' was the name of the Judge that won AMD some lawsuit against Microsoft AFAIK.

Google barton, judge and AMD.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Shimmishim
I think part of it was also a marketing scheme cuz at the time Windows XP was the new big thing and wanted to work the whole XP thing into their processor name....

microsoft = lots of money with XP

amd = trying to make more money by marketing chips as XP so that it'd be recognized with windows XP


at least that's what i remember but i could be totally pulling this out of my butt as well... 😕

They're never going to admit to that, of course, but it was quite evident when it happened that that's what they were doing.