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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (62426)6/19/1999 3:30:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (3) of 1572122
 
<Phonetically, Athlon is “ai shi lang” in Mandarin, which can be translated into “love dead wolf”, simply awful!!>

When the Xeon brand name was released (or was it Celeron?), I remember reading somewhere that Intel marketing made sure that the brand name didn't translate into anything meaningful in 20 languages. This is probably to avoid the Chevrolet Nova effect. ("No va" in Spanish means "It doesn't go!")

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