Re: "Itanium, strange, sounds like the source is the same as Timna."
No, it doesn't sound this way to me.
Re: "Itanu" means "with us", but "eitan" means "strong" or "strong to the core"
Interesting. Itanium sounds strong, solid, and reliable to me.
Re: "My guess would be that this is the correct pronunciation"
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Re: "guessing of course that the name was sourced in Israel (like Timna was, the name of the old Solomon copper mines)."
Timna is a code name, not a product name. Merced is a code name, while Itanium is a product name. In high-tech, usually engineering decides the code name, while marketing decides the product name. What would be wrong with an engineering team selecting a code name which reflects one of the world's Natural Wonders in their location? Maybe Timna (copper mines in Israel) is being developed in Israel, while Merced (a city/river in California) was developed in California? Who knows. High-tech engineering teams have the creative expression and freedom to come up with any name they wish, provided it isn't offensive. I see nothing offensive about the name of a copper mine in Israel. Do you?
Re: "Why would they want to lop the "T" from titanium?"
Probably so it doesn't sound and doesn't resemble the Titanic in any way.
Re: "I was actually serious, Intel Jerusalem have their hand in a lot of these"
In the case of Merced, nothing I've read on SI would imply this to be the case, but what's your point?
Re: "and I doubt "Timna" was accidental, thus my conclusion."
Nothing about Timna is an accident.
Re: "ultranationalism? But these brought us Americium, Germanium, Gallium, Hafnium, Scandium, Francium and a number of other nationalistic "ium" as well, so that must be the way it rolls."
Zeev, I believe the "ium" in Itanium has absolutely nothing to do with nationalism, but has everything to do with brand name marketing based upon the Pentium:
From www.dictionary.com:
"Pentium is Intel's superscalar successor to the 486. It is called "Pentium" because it is the fifth in the 80x86 line. It would have been called the 80586 had a US court not ruled that you can't trademark a number."
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